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358 Brenner, supra.
359 Id.
360 Brenner, supra.
338 ANATOMY OF A MONSTROSITY
361 Eliza Collins, “Les Moonves: Trump’s run is ‘damn good for
CBS,’” Politico (Feb. 29, 2016).
362 Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, “Books of the Times: The Art
of the Deal,” The New York Times (Dec. 7, 1987).
363 Quoted in Hurt, supra note 2, at 138.
364 Judy Klemsrud, “Donald Trump, Real Estate Promoter,
Builds Image as he Buys Buildings,” The New York Times
(Nov. 1, 1976).
365 Quoted in Hurt, supra, at 136.
366 Klemsrud, supra.
367 Glenn Plaskin, “The Playboy Interview: Donald Trump,”
Playboy (1990).
368 Id.
369 Stewart, supra.
370 Yes, the same dynamic plagues this book. Yes, it is inevitable
to some degree, and happens even if one tries to account for
it consciously. No, I am not suggesting nobody ever write
about Trump. However, I do think there are better and worse
ways to cover him, and that some forms of criticism serve his
interests.
371 Jane Mayer, “Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All,” The
New Yorker (July 25, 2016).
372 Jim Rutenberg, “Megyn Kelly’s Cautionary Tale of Crossing
Donald Trump,” The New York Times (Nov. 22, 2016).
373 See Chris Kelly, “What Donald Trump learned about politics
from pro wrestling,” The Washington Post (Nov. 11, 2016).
374 David Folkenflik, “Decades Later, ‘Spy’ Magazine Founders
Continue to Torment Trump,” NPR Morning Edition (March
7, 2016). See also Bruce Feirstein, “Trump’s War on ‘Losers’:
The Early Years,” Vanity Fair (Aug. 12, 2015).
375 Hurt, supra, at 148.
376 By the way, the Times review of The Art of the Deal was not
wrong that Trump exemplifies the American Dream. But it is
not because Trump is a “Gatsby without flaws.” It is, rather,
because Trump’s career, like the American Dream, is a swin-