Saturday, July 23, 2016

'Art Of The Deal' Ghostwriter On Why Trump Should Not Be President

In 1987, the book The Art of the Deal elevated Donald Trump from playboy developer to best-selling author. From the opening paragraph of Trump's self-portrait as a shrewd and creative dealmaker:

"I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks."

Trump's name is on the cover of that book. But there's another one, too — beneath the portrait and the big golden letters spelling out TRUMP — the name of Tony Schwartz, the book's ghostwriter. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shows a police officer his photo on the cover of a . 

Schwartz did not weigh in on the presidential campaign until this week in a lengthy interview with The New Yorker. Schwartz tells All Things Considered's Robert Siegel that he is speaking out now because he is extremely concerned about what Trump would be like as a president. He says the portrait that he painted of Trump in The Art of the Deal is not accurate....
http://www.npr.org/2016/07/21/486924253/art-of-the-deal-ghostwriter-on-why-trump-should-not-be-president?ft=nprml&f=1001

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