A review by pbraue13
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman

4.0

It took me a while to finish this, reading it in spots on and off over the course of the last few months. I struggled because I both despise the person this book is about and didn't want to devote anymore time to the man, but I also just wanted to understand the full extent of the things he had done or not done and get a fuller picture of him as a human (if he even is a human being) and as a politician. I would get swept up in Haberman's expertise journalism and writing and then remember who I was reading about and that it was all true and not a fictional villain origin story. The first half of the book was new ground for me as it centered on the man's life prior to politics and fleshed out many of the things Mary Trump covered in her book whilst the rest was things that I already knew a great deal about (especially since the author covered them extensively herself). In the end, I'm glad I survived reading this and perhaps America can survive him.