Russ Buettner (centre) & Susanne Craig (right).
russ buettner & susan craig
lucky loser: how donald trump squandered his father’s fortune and created the illusion of success (2024)
Donald Trump built a public reputation as a highly successful businessman. This revelatory biography makes clear how much be benefitted from his father’s fortune, and how lucky he was to survive many bankruptcies and accumulate huge wealth. This highly critical biography puts Trump’s success down to good fortune rather than to any skill as a businessman.
The New York Times wrote of the book: 'A first-rate financial thriller ... deserves, even demands, to be read'.
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Russ Buettner is an investigative journalist writing since 2006 for the New York Times. He won in 2019 (with colleauges) the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his series of articles revealing the details of Donal Trump’s finances. He graduated from California State University, and previously worked at the New York Daily News and New York Newsday.
Susanne Craig is also an investigative journalist with the New York Times, who shared the 2019 Pulitzer Prize with Russ Buettner. Born in Canada, Susanne Craig attended the Univesity of Calgary, where she studied Political Science. Before joining the New York Times in 2010 Craig worked at the Wall Street Journal.
