Author & Screenwriter
Sandra Fontana
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His buildings, his businesses, his bankruptcies … the casinos, the scandals, the campaign, everything Russia, and of course, the things he has said.
It's important to understand the man who became America’s 45th president. Prior to taking the Oath of Office on January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump had a life. Born into a family of great wealth, he sped through time, renovating dilapidated buildings into multimillion-dollar ventures, designing skyscrapers, buying hotels and casinos, authoring books, and marketing his surname. Over the years, his life played out before our eyes, but often with scant detail or context. He has been a businessman, a celebrity, a success, a failure, a victor, an icon, and many would say—an enigma. With so many people and places involved in the vast variety of controversies and confrontations, accusations, achievements, and outcomes, how can we authenticate what is true and what is not, if we only know part of the testimony?
The patterns and practices of Donald Trump
Before He Was President lays out the key moments of Donald Trump’s life in a timeline format, enabling us to examine each incident, each deal, each relationship. Beyond that, situations are updated with outcomes. Decoded in this way, we can see how it all fits together, how players from the first part of Trump’s life filtered into his political sphere, how deals made long ago continue to unravel, and how such a variety of unrelated incidents created a “perfect storm.”
Now, more than ever, it’s essential that we gauge how Donald Trump’s life before politics influenced his first campaign and his presidency. Now, more than ever, we need a before-and-after corpus—what took place in his life before his announcement speech, and then throughout his campaign. Now, more than ever, we need a more in-depth look at this man.
This is it.
“Congratulations on writing and publishing your book! The cover design is professional and dramatic, and I was immediately impressed by your back cover copy, in which you somehow manage to write about Donald Trump without revealing a bias one way or another! You have taken a unique approach to structuring and presenting this material. You present a detailed history of Trump’s business career and rise to national fame. Even more impressive is the massive body of quotations and evidence covering Trump’s first presidential campaign. It’s a credit to your roles of researcher and writer that you present facts and facts alone, without making judgments for your readers. Your Who’s Who section brings back to our memories the medium-sized and minor figures, some of whom scarcely were blips on the radar, others who are now back in the spotlight. This is a rich compendium that should be read by everyone before they vote in the 2024 election. Finally, great job with grammar, mechanics and proofreading.”
Judge, 32nd Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards