Never Enough, Michael DAntonio
Never Enough, Michael DAntonio
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Never Enough
Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success

Author: Michael D'Antonio

Narrator: Eric Pollins

Unabridged: 16 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/22/2015


Synopsis

A revealing unauthorized biography featuring firsthand interviews, including with "the Donald" himself, by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Michael D'Antonio.

In the summer of 2015, as he vaulted to the lead among the many GOP candidates for president, Donald Trump was the only one dogged by questions about his true intentions. This most famous American businessman had played the role of provocateur so often that pundits, reporters, and voters struggled to believe that he was a serious contender. Trump stirred so much controversy that his candidacy puzzled anyone who applied ordinary political logic to the race. But as Michael D'Antonio shows in Never Enough, Trump has rarely been ordinary in his pursuit of success and his trademark method is based on a logic that begins with his firm belief that he is a singular and superior human being.

As revealed in this landmark biography, Donald Trump is a man whose appetite for wealth, attention, power, and conquest is practically insatiable. Declaring that he is still the person he was as a rascally little boy, Trump confesses that he avoids reflecting on himself "because I might not like what I see" and he believes "most people aren't worthy of respect."

A product of the media age and the Me Generation that emerged in the 1970s, Trump was a Broadway showman before he became a developer. Mentored by the scoundrel attorney Roy Cohn, Trump was a regular on the New York club scene and won press attention as a dashing young mogul before he had built his first major project. He leveraged his father's enormous fortune and political connections to get his business off the ground, and soon developed a larger-than-life persona. In time, and through many setbacks, he made himself into a living symbol of extravagance and achievement.

Drawing upon extensive and exclusive interviews with Trump and many of his family members, including all his adult children, D'Antonio presents the full story of a truly American icon, from his beginnings as a businessman to his stormy romantic life and his pursuit of power in its many forms. For all those who wonder: Just who is Donald Trump?, Never Enough supplies the answer. He is a promoter, builder, performer and politician who pursues success with a drive that borders on obsession and yet, has given him, almost everything he ever wanted.

About Michael D'Antonio

As part of a team of journalists from Newsday, MICHAEL D'ANTONIO won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting before going on to write many acclaimed books, including Atomic Harvest, The State Boys Rebellion, and The Truth About Trump. He has also written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Sports Illustrated. He lives in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Delee on February 20, 2017

If you have been looking in at my reviews here and there- or have been paying attention to my absence on and off over the last year or so- you will have noticed I am not on here much anymore. The few reviews I have written have lost their sparkle, and their lightness. I have become kind of angry- an......more

Goodreads review by Scott on August 10, 2024

8/10/2024 addendum: Originally published as "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success", Michael D'Antonio's "The Truth About Trump" is still one of the better in-depth Trump biographies. This is a pretty damn long review, but I felt that there was a lot that needed to be said. Granted,......more

Goodreads review by Denise on December 22, 2015

Overly lengthy and frankly somewhat tedious book lays out the author’s view of the life of businessman and now, presidential candidate, Donald Trump. Way too much info on other people, especially business or other acquaintances/associates of Trump and way too much background detail.......more

Goodreads review by Scott on August 22, 2021

Donald Trump supporters love the idea that they support Trump because he “says things that most people are afraid to say”, which, on the face of it, sounds great as a testament to his blunt, brutally honest lack of political correctness but, in reality, tends to point out the fact that, if true, the......more

Goodreads review by Steven on April 24, 2019

This morning I spent an inordinate amount of time reading the MUELLER REPORT. It is not my purpose to recount what was divulged, but what concerns me most is the dysfunction that exists at the pinnacle of our government. What does it say about us as a people, and what does it say about the man who i......more