Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
Read or Download Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
'Relying on testimony from playing partners, caddies, and former Trump employees, Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming....P.G. Wodehouse would have approved.'―The New Yorker'Assails Trump's 'ethics deficit.''―Associated Press'Commander in Cheat is an incredibly creative book, regardless what you think of President Trump, regardless of where you are on the political spectrum. It takes us places behind the press conferences and the staged interviews....It take us into Trump's past, places where there were no cameras, no speech writers, no handlers, no aides. It is just Donald Trump with his appetites, Donald Trump with his excesses, Donald Trump with his flaws. Donald Trump with both his love for golf, and his propensity to play games with the truth.'―The Providence Journal'Building on his firsthand experience by interviewing scores of golf pros, caddies, and opponents, Reilly paints a side-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater.'―Esquire, Most Anticipated Books of the Year'Golf is the spine of this shocking, wildly humorous book, but humanity is its flesh and spirit....It's all hilarious in Reilly's gifted hands.'―Chicago Sun-Times'Reilly uses golf to reveal larger truths. Or, in this case, lies.'―The Arizona Republic'Great writing...If you really don't like Trump, this is your perfect book.'―Chris Matthews, MSNBC's Hardball'Sportswriting can be a lens into any part of our culture, and [Commander in Cheat] proves my point... a clever way to make sense of White House chaos.'―The Week, Books to Read in 2019'There's a new tell-all book about the president...The specific anecdotes are where Commander in Cheat really takes off.'―Stephen Colbert, The Late Show 'Commander in Cheat is one of the most surprising pieces of muckraking of the Trump era....Reilly's right to say Trump sees a golf course like he does the Oval Office...Every one of Trump's most disgusting qualities surfaces in golf.'―The RingerCurrently a screenwriter and author, Rick Reilly for years wrote for Sports Illustrated and appeared on and wrote for ESPN. In addition to being voted the NSMA National Sportswriter of the Year eleven times, he has also been recognized with the Damon Runyon Award for Outstanding Contributions to Journalism. USA Today called him, 'the closest thing sportswriting ever had to a rock star.'
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar