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Trump and Me Audiobook

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Read By: Mark Singer, David Remnick Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 1.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 1.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2016 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781524733940

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

24

Longest Chapter Length:

07:50 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

05:46 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race—in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants—he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history. It was not always so. In 1996, longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald Trump. At that time Trump was a mere Manhattan-centric megalomaniac, a failing casino operator mired in his second divorce and (he claimed) recovering from the bankruptcy proceedings that prompted him to inventory the contents of his Trump Tower home. Conversing with Trump in his offices, apartments, cars, and private plane, Singer found himself fascinated with this man “who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.” In Trump and Me, Singer revisits the profile and recounts how its publication lodged inside its subject’s head as an enduring irritant—and how Singer (“A TOTAL LOSER!” according to Trump) cheerfully continued to bait him. He reflects on Trump’s evolution from swaggering buffoon to potential threat to America’s standing as a rational guardian of the world order. Heedlessly combative, equally adept at spewing insults and manipulating crowds at his campaign rallies, the self-proclaimed billionaire has emerged as an unlikely tribune of populist rage. All politics is artifice, and Singer marvels at how Trump has transfixed an electorate with his ultimate feat of performance art—a mass political movement only loosely tethered to reality.

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“The foreword is read by New Yorker editor David Remnick, and the rest is narrated by the author, who sounds exactly like a print journalist should. He has a deep voice, a snide mien, a knowing attitude, and a fine sense of pacing. He’s one of the few authors who can successfully narrate their own words. For those who haven’t already had enough of Donald Trump, this audiobook is well worth a listen.”

— AudioFile

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  • “A hilariously scathing book.”

    — Guardian (London)
  • “Trump and Me offers clearer insight into the mind of the presumptive Republican nominee than any of the detailed biographies written over the years…Singer is excellent at describing the disturbing strangeness of Trump’s existence.”

    — Daily Telegraph (London)
  • “A classic of the genre.”

    — VICE

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About Mark Singer

Mark Singer has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1974. He has contributed hundreds of Talk of the Town stories and scores of Profiles and reporting pieces. In the fall of 2000, he revived the U.S. Journal column in the magazine, a monthly feature that was written by Calvin Trillin from 1967 to 1982.

About Mark Singer

David Remnick has been the editor of the New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. His books include the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, King of the World: Muhammed Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, and two collections of his magazine pieces.