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PREFACE TO THE 2016 EDITION

1. Ben Schreckinger, “Trump on Protester: ‘I’d Like to Punch Him in the Face,’” Politico, February 23, 2016.

2. Transcript of Donald Trump’s December 30 speech in Hilton Head, S.C., Kansas City Star, January 20, 2016.

3. Eric Bradner, “Donald Trump Stumbles on David Duke, KKK,” CNN.com, February 29, 2016; and Jane C. Timm, “Donald Trump’s History of Talking About David Duke and White Supremacists,” MSNBC.com, February 29, 2016.

4. Paul Kane, “Paul Ryan Rejects Trump’s KKK Comments, But Not His Candidacy If He Wins GOP Nomination,” Washington Post, March 1, 2016.

5. Ashley Parker and Maggie Haberman, “Donald Trump’s Backers Express Deep and Diverse Support,” New York Times, March 1, 2016.

6. Amanda Hess, “Welcome to Donald Trump’s Internet Bunker, Where Reality is Negotiable,” Slate, March 3, 2016.

7. Robert Schlesinger, “This Too Shall Pass,” U.S. News & World Report, November 24, 2015.

8. Nate Silver, “Dear Media, Stop Freaking Out About Donald Trump’s Polls,” FiveThirtyEight.com, November 23, 2015.

9. Alexander Burns, Maggie Haberman, and Jonathan Martin, “Inside the Republican Party’s Desperate Mission to Stop Donald Trump,” New York Times, February 27, 2016.

10. Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, “The Republican Party’s Implosion over Donald Trump’s Candidacy Has Arrived,” Washington Post, February 28, 2016.

11. Alexander Burns, “Anti-Trump Republicans Call for a Third-Party Option,” New York Times, March 2, 2016.

12. Sandy McIntosh, “Culture of Hazing: Donald Trump, Me & the End of New York Military Academy,” Long Island Press, October 5, 2015.

INTRODUCTION

1. Chris Grygiel, “Obama Slams Trump: ‘Did We Fake the Moon Landing?,’” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 30, 2011, http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2011/04/30/obama-slams-trump-did-we-fake-the-moon-landing/; for video see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIkxoq0agNo; and Dean Schabner and Ryan Creed, “Donald Trump ‘Honored’ to Be Butt of Obama, Seth Meyers Jokes at Correspondents’ Dinner,” ABC News, May 1, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-honored-butt-obama-seth-meyers-jokes/story?id=13503379.

2. “Romney Leads GOP Field as Trump Pops Up,” Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2011; “Donald Trump: Political Apprentice,” Variety, February 19, 2011; and Hunter Walker, “Poll: New Yorkers Do Not Like Donald Trump,” Business Insider, March 6, 2014.

3. Erik Hayden, “Jon Stewart vs. Donald Trump: Throwaway Joke Devolves into Name-Calling,” Hollywood Reporter, May 3, 2013, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jon-stewart-donald-trump-throwaway-451612; and “Donald Trump Drops Bill Maher Lawsuit,” Huffington Post, April 2, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/02/donald-trump-drops-bill-maher-lawsuit_n_2999605.html.

4. “Donald Trump: Political Apprentice,” Variety, February 19, 2011; and “Trump: Sam, Tebow Reactions Show US in Politically Correct ‘Hell,’” Newsmax, http://www.newsmax.com/US/Donald-Trump-Michael-Sam-Tebow/2014/05/12/id/570817/.

5. For an example of the Gilded Age anti-education argument see Andrew Carnegie, The Empire of Business (New York: Cosimo Classics, 2007), 80.

6. Wayne Barrett, Trump: The Deals and the Downfall (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 79.

7. George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (New York: Basic Books, 1981), 304–15, and Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2012), 102.

8. “How Young People View Their Lives, Futures and Politics: A Portrait of ‘Generation Next,’” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C., 2007.

9. Deposition taken for Donald Trump v. Timothy O’Brien, Superior Court of New Jersey, Camden County.

10. P. T. Barnum’s fame is noted in Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown (New York: Vintage, 1997), 498. For “Face of a Dog!” and other examples of egregious behavior, see Ann Holmes, “On Donald Trump’s Sexism,” Washington Post, April 30, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/column-anna-holmes-on-donald-trumps-sexism/2011/04/21/AFmSfEHF_story.html

1. THE TRUMPS OF BROOKLYN, QUEENS, AND THE KLONDIKE

The most substantial source for this chapter is Gwenda Blair, The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire (New York: Touchstone, 2000). Others include:

1. William R. Conklin, “F.H.A. Official Got $48,500 Law Fees from Family Firm: Agency Head for This State from ‘35 to ‘52 Tells Senate Inquiry He Did No Wrong,” New York Times, August 25, 1954; “Projects in This Area, Connecticut, and New Jersey, Named by the Housing and Home Finance,” New York Times, June 12, 1954, 13; Charles S. Egan, “Housing Inquiry Lists ‘Windfalls,’” New York Times, June 12, 1954, 1; Associated Press, “F.H.A. Corruption, Graft Laid to Powell,” New York Times, September 13, 1954, 1; testimony from official transcript FHA Investigation: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs, US Senate, 83rd Cong. (Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office, 1954). For Eisenhower see Blair, Trumps, 182–83. For Eisenhower and Zeckendorf: “Zeckendorf Tells President About Big SW Development,” Washington Post, July 9, 1954. For Teapot Dome quote: “Contempt Action Threatened in FHA Probe,” Washington Post, July 13, 1954, 4.

2. The story of Friedrich Trump’s adventures in the West, return to Germany, and life in New York is well told in Blair, Trumps, 41–102; Trump’s citizenship declaration on file US District Court Seattle.

3. http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/1918/the_pandemic/index.html.

4. The tale of New York’s rise is told in Donald L. Miller, Supreme City (Simon & Schuster, 2014). For housing prices and the economic cycles of the first half of the twentieth century, see Price V. Fishback and Trevor Kollmann, New Multi-City Estimates of the Changes in Home Values, 1920–1940, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 18272 (August 2012).

5. James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1931).

6. Foreclosures from Statistical Abstract of the United States 1970 (US Department of Commerce), 690. For real estate crisis in New York see “Fifteen Parcels Go Under Hammer,” New York Times, January 11, 1934, 38; and “Home Owners Ask More Protection,” New York Times, March 28, 1934, 3.

7. Gwenda Blair reveals Trump’s role in the Lehrenkrauss affair thoroughly in Trumps. See also “Notes of Social Activities in New York and Elsewhere,” New York Times, August 16, 1930, 12; “Mrs. Lehrenkrauss Gets Decree,” New York Times, October 7, 1932, 2; “Lehrenkrauss Corp. in Receivership Suit,” New York Times, December 7, 1933, 24; “Mortgage House Faces New Inquiry,” New York Times, December 10, 1933, n3; “Receivers to Keep 4 Concerns Active,” New York Times, December 12, 1933, 42; “Lehrenkrauss Home Bought by His Firm,” New York Times, December 15, 1933, 5; “Plea to RFC Bared by Lehrenkrauss: Mortgage Operator at Inquiry into Bankruptcy Admits He Sought $1,000,000 Loan,” New York Times, December 21, 1933, 6; “3 Named Trustees for Lehrenkrauss: Close to 3,000 Persons Try to Get into Meeting of the Bankrupt Firm’s Creditors,” New York Times, January 16, 1934, 33; “Brooklyn Banker Indicted in Theft,” New York Times, January 24, 1934, 11; “Brooklyn Banker Submits to Arrest,” New York Times, January 25, 1934, 2; “3 in Lehrenkrauss Failure Are Re-Indicted for Theft,” New York Times, February 27, 1934, 13; “5 Years in Prison for Lehrenkrauss,” New York Times, March 8, 1934, 42; and “Two Mining Stocks Under State Inquiry,” New York Times, March 11, 1934, 20.

8. “Builders Get Plaque: FHA Officials Attend Opening of Brooklyn Model Home,” New York Times, August 12, 1936, 36.

9. For Bernays see Larry Tye, The Father of Spin: Edward Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations (New York: Picador, 2002).

10. For mobsters in the building trades see Alan Block, East Side–West Side: Organizing Crime in New York, 1930–1950 (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1983), especially 225–26.

11. For Capehart greeting see Blair, Trumps, 193.

2. THE BOY KING

1. For Leverhulme and Lewis see Roger Hutchinson, The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme (Edinburgh: Berlinn, 2005).

2. Iolaire disaster, Stornoway Historical Society, http://www.stornowayhistoricalsociety.org.uk/iolaire-disaster.html.

3. Life in the Trump household from various sources including Jerome Tuccille, Trump (New York: Donald J. Fine, 1985): Blair, Trumps; and Harry Hurt, The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald. J. Trump (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993).

4. For “king’ and “killer” see Hurt, 13.

5. Blair, Trumps, 231–33; and John Brodie, “Where Playing to Win Was Born,” Spy, March 1990, 36.

6. Steven B. Levine, “The Rise of American Boarding Schools and the Development of a National Upper Class,” Social Problems 28, no. 1 (October 1980): 63, http://www.jstor.org/stable/800381; Charles Frederick Hoffman, “The Growing Importance of Military Schools,” School Review 56, no. 10 (December 1948): 597; Fred Kniss, review of Practicing Virtues: Moral Traditions at Quaker and Military Boarding Schools, by Kim Hays, American Journal of Sociology 100, no. 4 (January 1995): 1067; and James Q. Wilson, “In Loco Parentis: Helping Children When Families Fail Them,” Brookings Review 11, no. 4 (Fall 1993): 14.

7. Kenny Gallo, Breakshot: A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia (New York: Pocket Books, 2010), 27.

8. Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (New York: Random House, 1963), 356–58.

9. Michael J. Haupert, “The Economic History of Major League Baseball,” https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-economic-history-of-major-league-baseball/.

10. Richard Weiss, The American Myth of Success: From Horatio Alger to Norman Vincent Peale (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1988), chap. 7, “The Amerrican Mystique of the Mind.”

3. APPRENTICE

1. “Lefkowitz Calls Wagner Fete the ‘Ultimate’ in ‘Immorality’: Terms $25,000 in Pledges ‘Shakedown Reminiscent of Boss Tweed’—Gerosa Asks Charter Inquiry on Mayor,” New York Times, October 1, 1961, 66.

2. Barrett, 65–72; and Edith Evans Asbury, “Housing Windfall Yielded 1.8-Million,” New York Times, January 27, 1966, 1.

3. Edith Evans Asbury, “Mitchell Defends Huge Housing Fee: Ex-Senator Tells Inquiry His Firm Received $427,633; Aide Got $575,000,” New York Times, January 28, 1966, 1.

4. “Profiteers in Housing,” New York Times, January 29, 1966, 26.

5. “Steeplechase Park Planned as the Site of Housing Project,” New York Times, July 1, 1965, 33; Martin Tolchin, “Coney Landmark Is Sold to Trump: Apartments May Rise in Steeplechase Park,” New York Times, July 2, 1965, 60; Mccandlish Phillips, “Return of Coney Island: Amusement Area, Badly Hurt Last Year, Is Attempting to Win Back Customers,” New York Times, April 13, 1966, 31; Steven V. Roberts, “A Park Is Backed for Coney Island: Developer Who Bought Site Calls Plan Wasteful,” New York Times, October 20, 1966, 59; Charles G. Bennett, “Park Usage Voted for Steeplechase: City to Seek $2-Million Aid to Buy Coney Island Tract,” New York Times, May 23, 1968, 47.

6. Marie Brenner, “After the Gold Rush,” Vanity Fair, September 1990.

7. Edward C. Burkes, “Growth of Poverty in City Creating New Poor Zones: Rapid Spread of Poverty in City Creates Entire New Zones of Poor Residents Here,” New York Times, April 10, 1972, 1; and William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo, “The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values,” NBER Working Paper No. 10493, May 2004, doi:10.3386/w10493.

8. David K. Shipler, “The Changing City: Housing Paralyzed by a Conflict of Powerful Forces; Apartments Are Scarce and Construction Lags,” New York Times, June 5, 1969, 1.

9. Daily Pennsylvanian editorial of January 14, 1955, quoted in William Whyte, The Organization Man (Simon & Schuster, 1956), 93.

10. David Card and Thomas Lemieux, “Going to College to Avoid the Draft: The Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War,” American Economic Review 91, no. 2 (May 2001): 97–102.

4. FEAR CITY

1. For rent control in New York see W. Dennis Keating, “Landlord Self-Regulation: New York City’s Rent Stabilization System, 1969–1985,” Urban Law Annual; Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 31 (January 1987).

2. Judith DeSena and Timothy Shortell, eds., The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012); and Larry Littlefield, “Has New York City Recovered From the 1970s?: Public Policy in New York City and State,” https://larrylittlefield.wordpress.com/.

3. Martin Tolchin, “South Bronx: A Jungle Stalked by Fear, Seized by Rage,” New York Times, January 15, 1973, 63.

4. Walter Kerr, “‘Paris Is Out’ Can Leave Kerr Out,” New York Times, February 22, 1970, D5.

5. For “Some were vain…” see Trump: The Art of the Deal (New York: Random House, 1987), 97. For Steinbrenner, Le Club, etc., see Michael Thomas, “Want a Hot Treatise on the Insanity of Riches?,” New York Observer, June 28, 1999, http://observer.com/1999/06/want-a-hot-treatise-on-the-insanity-of-riches/.

6. Richard Severo, “Igor Cassini, Hearst Columnist, Dies at 86,” New York Times, January 9, 2002, B8; and “Le Club, Restaurant of Jet Set, Cited for Health Code Violations,” New York Times, September 7, 1974, 43.

7. Tom Wolfe, “Dangerous Obsessions,” New York Times, April 3, 1988, Books, 1. Details of Cohn’s life from Sidney Zion, The Autobiography of Roy Cohn (Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1988); and Nicholas von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn (New York: Doubleday, 1988).

8. Von Hoffman, 414, 415; and Barrett, 133.

9. Joseph P. Fried, “Trump Promises to End Race Bias,” New York Times, June 11, 1975, 47.

10. Martin Gilens, Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 103–20.

11. For a complete explication of coded race speech see Ian Haney Lopez, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

12. Jack Newfield and Wayne Barrett, City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York (New York: HarperCollins, 1988), 149.

13. Maurice Carroll, “A Major but Unobtrusive Factor in Carey Victory,” New York Times, September 15, 1974, 37.

14. Fred Ferretti, The Year the Big Apple Went Bust (New York: Putnam, 1976).

15. T. J. Englis, The Westies: Inside the Hell’s Kitchen Irish Mob (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1990).

16. For Palmieri see Robert A. Wright, “Is $25,000 a Month Enough?,” New York Times, August 20, 1972, F5.

17. For Eichler homes and X-100, see www.eichlernetwork.com.

18. The story of Trump and the Penn Central properties is told in thorough detail in Barrett, 91–150. Robert D. McFadden, “Penn Central Yards’ Sale Is Approved by U.S. Court,” New York Times, March 11, 1975, 38.

19. “Bank Aide Admits Taking $392,000: Issued False Loans to Get Money for Gaming Debts,” New York Times, March 11, 1975, 39.

20. “John N. Mitchell Dies at 75; Major Figure in Watergate,” New York Times, November 10, 1988, 1.