Fred Trump
Father of Donald Trump DocumentaryBy Grantson Eugene
Length8h 42m
About this audiobook
Before Donald Trump built his brand, Fred Trump built the foundation that made all of it possible.
Fred Trump is one of the most consequential and least examined figures in modern American history. He built a real estate empire in Brooklyn and Queens that generated the family wealth Donald Trump would later leverage into global celebrity. He was sharp, methodical, and deeply private, a builder who avoided the spotlight while constructing thousands of homes and amassing a fortune that reshaped what the Trump name would come to mean.
But Fred Trump's story is more complicated than the foundation myth suggests.
Congressional investigations examined his use of wartime government contracts. Court records documented allegations of discriminatory rental practices. Family members, in accounts made public through legal proceedings and investigative journalism, described a patriarch whose standards were exacting and whose approval was the most difficult thing to earn in the household.
This documentary biography examines who Fred Trump actually was, not as a supporting character in his son's story, but as the central figure in his own. It traces his rise from the son of a German immigrant to one of the most powerful private landlords in New York history. It examines the methods he used, the era that permitted them, the family he built, and the legacy, financial, psychological, and cultural, that he left behind.
Understanding Donald Trump, the president, the brand, the phenomenon, starts here. With the man who shaped him and the world he inherited.
Get your copy today and read the story that actually explains the story everyone is already watching.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Fred Trump
11Tax Labyrinth
2Foreword
12Federal Firefight
3Preface
13Heir Apparent
4Acknowledgments
14Heartbeats and Handovers
5Prologue
15Empire’s Eclipse
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6Immigrant Foundations
16Final Foundations
7Crash and Cutthroat
17Dynasty Blueprint
8War Builder
18Concrete Legacy
9Codes and Closings
19Epilogue
10Family Forge
20Afterword
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