Nino Cerruti lauds Focus
Nino Cerruti, the renowned Italian fashion designer and red carpet favorite of Hollywood’s elite, is the latest early reader of Focus: The Sexy, Secret, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers. “Focus is the ‘House of Cards’ of fashion,” Cerruti says.
Tim Gunn on Focus: “Enthralling”
Project Runway star and former Parsons School of Design chairman Tim Gunn says, “I thought I knew practically everything about the fashion industry, but Michael Gross has corrected me. His thoroughly absorbing narrative dazzles with the most profound investigation and research. Focus is an enthralling and riveting read!”
Daily Dose of Donald: This is Populism?
In June 1990, for his forty-forth birthday, Donald J. Trump missed a deadline for a $42 million payment on the bonds that financed one of his Atlantic City, NJ, casinos, Trump Castle, and a $30 million payment on a personally guaranteed loan, and Moody’s Investor Services downgraded the ratings of bonds for the Taj and […]
Daily Dose of Donald: Marriage=Boredom
“I went from one marriage to another, which was a mistake,” Donald J. Trump says in a 1999 interview first reported in My Generation, at last available as an e-book. “Marla [Maples Trump] is a good girl, and I had a good marriage with her, but it’s just that I get fuckin’ bored. One of […]
Daily Dose of Donald: With friends like these…
In 1973, when the government charged the Trumps with racial discrimination at their rental properties, Donald Trump hired Roy Cohn, the notorious, politically-wired former counsel for Joseph McCarthy’s red-baiting Senate investigations subcommittee, as his new lawyer. (He eventually signed a consent decree in that case, but kept Cohn on regardless.) And he hired Louise Sunshine, […]
Daily Dose of Donald: Seduction, Trump Style
As a young man eager to make his mark in Manhattan, Republican front-runner Donald J. Trump wore maroon suits and matching shoes—-a sure sign of an outer-borough boy. His developer father’s business was headquartered in a six-story red brick building in Brooklyn. Donald had business cards made up with the address of his East Side […]
Daily Dose of Donald: Sex and the Single Real Estate Heir
After he graduated from Wharton, Manhattan became Donald Trump’s graduate school. He majored in making money. He minored in sex, though, taking full advantage of the times and the extraordinary opportunities they offered to indulge in consequence-free promiscuity, “my second business,” Trump recalls in My Generation, now in an e-book for the first time. “If […]
Daily Dose of Donald: Draft-dodger?
The war is not over. In today’s New York Times, a retired Special Forces colonel calls Donald J. Trump a draft-dodger and a coward. In fact, like many of his fellow Baby Boomers “Trump was opposed to the war in Vietnam,” he admits in My Generation, newly available as an e-book. “He ‘saw it as […]
The Daily Donald Flashback: Trump, Understimulated
As a schoolboy, “I was bored, understimulated,” says Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. “I wanted an energy release.” He found it harassing his teachers, even punching one, though he’d rather talk about throwing chalk at blackboards when they’d turned their backs. “It used to explode if you’d throw it hard,” he recounts with glee […]
Donald Trump: “I don’t think anybody had more sex than I did. Sex was all over the fucking place.”
Donald J. Trump (born in 1946) is an unlikely Baby Boomer, but like it or not, he is one, and was one of nineteen profiled in My Generation. Out of print for more than a decade, the book the Orlando Sentinel called “hugely entertaining,” the New York Times Book Review said was “exhaustively researched,” and […]