About the Author

Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent for the New York Times. She was part of the team that won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the investigations into Donald Trump’s, and his advisers’, connections to Russia, and were finalists for a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus. Before joining the New York Times as a campaign correspondent, she worked as a political reporter at Politico, from 2010 to 2015. She previously worked at theNew York Post and the New York Daily News.

Reviews

‘A devastating portrait’ Economist ‘Maggie Haberman, the New York Times’ Trump whisperer, delivers. Her latest book is much more than 600 pages of context, scoop and drama. It is a political epic, tracing Donald Trump’s journey from the streets of Queens to Manhattan’s Upper East Side, from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, his Elba. There, the 45th president holds court – and broods and plots his return.’Guardian ‘[Confidence Man] will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come… [Haberman] is an exemplar of her craft, relentless, judicious and even-keeled.’ New York Times