Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman - ★★★★

I read confidence man by Maggie Haberman, in my ongoing series of Trump books, as I learned how bad the nightmare was, and how deep the rabbit hole goes. Confidence man starts out early with Trump's childhood, the disastrous raising by his angry father, who taught him to be the exact opposite of everything laudable about a human being reminiscent of Mary Trump's excellent book detailing their horrid and despicable family history. Truly, a family of monsters. Haberman ZBook continues past the early autobiographical sections to include detailed behind the scenes fly on the wall information about the Trump administration, which although I'd read in several books before did add a little more color and character to previous stories that I'd already heard. She has her own details. Unfortunately, most of them were ruined in media reports so they were not as surprised as I read them. However, it was neat to read the original sources that so many media reports have been based on. I didn't know confidence man was so incredibly long until I saw a copy of it in a local bookstore. That's when I realized why I had been pushing page down and page down and page down on the Kindle forever. And the book was not ending. I also had the interesting experience of the book ending about 53% through its Kindle run, as the second half of the book was detailed notes and sourcing on havens reporting. It was a delight when it ended suddenly, because I thought it was just going to keep going forever. Still, if you want the detailed history of the Trump monster, you can't go wrong with confidence man by Maggie Haberman.

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