“The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

In a 2016 article in The Guardian, Blair described how Trump's "voice, language, confidence" helped him win the election. Blair said his voice had a "hint of menace beneath the surface", and an "unpolished immediacy". His "dark stew of conversational snippets and memory scraps, random phrases and half-thoughts "random phrases" reminds people of the "voice inside their own heads."^[4]^[5]

Publisher's summary

The publisher's summary described the generational story of the Trump family as one that parallels the history of the United States starting with immigrants who made small fortunes during the Klondike Gold Rush. In the second generation, in the 1940s and 1950s, Fred Trump made his fortune in housing developments through the New Deal, "using government subsidies and loopholes". The next generation, which included Fred Jr., Maryanne, and President Donald Trump conintued to benefit from the family fortune.^[2]

Reviews

In his 2000 book review of The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire in The New York Times, David Margolick described Blair's "efforts to show some kind of genetic link between the generations" as "labored" with readers "struggling through the long sections on grandfather Friedrich and father Fred" to get to what really intrigued them, Donald Trump, who Blair had described as "the most famous man in America, if not the world" in 1989.^[6] Margolick described her section on Friedrich Trumpf as padded and "heavy-handed foreshadowing".^[6] He wrote that her section on Fred Trump, while too lengthy and rambling, "pick[ed] up speed and gravity".^[6] He said that in her section on Donald Trump, she "neatly captures [his] uncanny business instincts, as well as his competitiveness, chutzpah, cruelty, vulgarity and hucksterism. And she catches him in his lies, or what Trump himself calls truthful hyperbole.^[6] Margolick wrote that Blair's book is "conscientious", "prodigiously" researched, written "with authority", and with "cogent" "descriptions of intricate deals"." She "unmasks Trump" but is neither as "caustic" or gloating as she could have been. He concludes that Blair depicted the Trump that everyone already knew: "Donald Trump is like one of his typical buildings: lots of glitter on the outside but nothing profound below."^[6]

In her Times review of the 2000 publication, Janet Maslin described Blair's book The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire as a "no-win proposition" even though it is an "exhaustive", and "copiously researched study".^[7] Maslin wrote that the section on the first generation was "cobbled together" with "dubious" claims as most of it was "undocumented".^[7] She said that Blair was on "more solid ground with the story of how Fred Trump carved out a real estate empire in Brooklyn".^[7] While Blair's portrait of Donald Trump is that of a "germ-phobic anti-Gatsby," Maslin concludes that Trump remained in "full control of his own image and reputation, impregnable to the kinds of details that emerge [in Blair's book]."^[7]

In his 2000 The New York Review of Books entitled "Golden Boy", James Traub questioned why bother revisiting Trump in 2000, when he is "an almost sickeningly familiar figure to much of the reading public". Traub said that "Donald Trump is the price you pay for living in a marketplace culture". He wrote that Blair's strategy of turning "Trump’s life into the final stage of a multigenerational saga" made sense in New York, where "real estate has been a family business...since the time of the Astors and the Goelets in the late eighteenth century".^[8]

The publisher's summary cited positive reviews from The New York Observer's Robert Gottlieb, The Philadelphia Inquirer 's Steve Weinberg, The San Diego Union-Tribune 's Cintra Wilson, and Kirkus Reviews. The latter compared Blair's reconstruction to "the best work of David Halberstam and Robert Caro."^[2]

Alleged errors

In a film released in 2014 entitled Kings of Kallstadt by filmmaker Simone Wendel, Trump admitted that his grandfather Friedrich Trump, came from the small village of Kallstadt, in southwest Germany. The village, which is now the home to 1200 people, has been home to Trumps for hundreds of years.^[9]^[10] The film featured the home of Trump's grandfather which is still in very good condition.^[11]

According to Blair's research, "Hanns Drumpf, an itinerant lawyer, moved to Kallstadt in 1608, and the spelling of his last name changed by the end of that century" to Trump.^[9]^[1]{{rp|26–7}}^[12] This has been challenged. According to a 2015 article in Die Welt, a German national daily newspaper, Friedrich Trump "has always been called Trump, never Drumpf, even if this misinformation persists stubbornly".^[13]^[14]^[15]

In a Last Week Tonight with John Oliver television episode aired on February 28, 2016, John Oliver urged viewers to "Make Donald Drumpf Again," referring to Blair's book. The segment attracted 85 million views on social media, and was the most popular segment the show has ever had.^[16]

Donald Trump: Master Apprentice

In 2005, The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire was adapted and re-released as Donald Trump: Master Apprentice.^[5]^[17]

Trump Unauthorized

Notes

1. ^¹²{{cite book |pages=592 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York, New York|date=December 4, 2001 |orig-year=2000|isbn=978-0684808499 |oclc=1031898715|title=The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire |edition=1|first=Gwenda |last=Blair |url=https://books.google.com/?id=PmrwtRTQ3fMC&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false}}
2. ^¹²{{cite book|url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Trumps/Gwenda-Blair/9780743210799|title=The Trumps|date=nd|work=Simon & Schuster|series=Publisher's summary|access-date=December 15, 2018|isbn=9780743210799|last1=Blair|first1=Gwenda}}
3. ^{{cite book |pages=591 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=2015 |orig-year=2000|isbn=9780743210799 |oclc=1031898715|title=The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President |first=Gwenda |last=Blair}}
4. ^{{cite news |series=The Observer |title=Inside the mind of Donald Trump |quote="Gwenda Blair spent years researching her biography of Donald Trump – and knows what makes him tick. Here she lists the personal details - his voice, language, confidence – that helped win over America" |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/12/inside-the-mind-of-donald-trump-biographer-gwenda-blair |first=Gwenda |last=Blair}}
5. ^The article was described as "an expanded version" of the preface for a new edition of The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate.
6. ^¹²³⁴{{cite web |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/03/reviews/001203.03margolt.html |date=December 3, 2000 |title=The House That Fred Built |series=Reviews |first=David |last=Margolick |quote="A real estate dynasty, from its humble origins in Germany to casinos in Atlantic City." |access-date=December 15, 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times}}
7. ^¹²³{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/14/books/books-of-the-times-the-grandfather-the-father-the-donald.html |series=Books of The Times |title=The Grandfather, the Father, the Donald |first=Janet |last=Maslin |date=September 14, 2000 |access-date=December 15, 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times }}
8. ^{{cite journal |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2000/12/21/golden-boy/ |title=Golden Boy |journal=The New York Review of Books |first=James |last=Traub |date=December 21, 2000 |quote=Review of The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire |access-date=December 15, 2018 }}
9. ^¹{{cite web |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-ancestral-german-home-of-the-trumps |title=The Ancestral German Home of the Trumps |first=Sally |last=McGrane |date=April 29, 2016 |access-date=December 15, 2018 |publisher=The New Yorker}}
10. ^{{cite video |title=Kings of Kallstadt |first=Simone |last=Wendel |location=Germany |date=2014}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.heidelberg24.de/region/kallstadt-nach-us-praesidenten-wahl-bewohner-wollen-trump-haus-verkaufen-6963652.html|title=Nach US-Wahl: Trump-Haus in Kallstadt steht zum Verkauf!|date=9 November 2016|publisher=Heidelberg24}}
12. ^{{cite web| url = https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/09/09/why-donald-trump-better-than-donald-drumpf/7ltKCyRasCa5TY2l1Tr4HP/story.html | title = Why Donald Trump trumps Donald Drumpf | work = The Boston Globe | access-date = March 3, 2016 }}
13. ^{{cite news |last=Crolly |first=Hannelore |title=Donald Trump, King of Kallstadt |newspaper=Die Welt |date=August 24, 2015 |access-date=December 15, 2018 |url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article145558110/Donald-Trump-King-of-Kallstadt.html}}
14. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/29/kallstadt-germany-on-the-trail-of-the-donald-in-the-trump-ancestral-home |date=January 29, 2016 |access-date=December 15, 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian |title=Kallstadt, Germany: on the trail of 'the Donald' in the Trump ancestral home |location=Kallstadt, Germany}}
15. ^According to a January 29, 2016 article in The Guardian, the local church register in Kallstadt includes various spellings of the Trump family name over the "past five hundred years", including "Drumb, Tromb, Tromp, Trum, Trumpff, and Dromb".
16. ^{{Cite web|url=http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/30/media/john-oliver-donald-trump/index.html|title=Even John Oliver enjoys a Drumpf bump|last=Stelter|first=Brian|date=March 30, 2016|website=CNNMoney|accessdate=June 19, 2018}}
17. ^{{cite book |pages=303 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |date=2005 |isbn=978-0743275101 |oclc=652021034|title=Donald Trump: Master Apprentice |first=Gwenda |last=Blair}}
18. ^{{cite video |author= Keith Curran |title=Trump Unauthorized |publisher= American Broadcasting Company (ABC)|date= May 24, 2005 }} director: John David Coles
19. ^¹²{{cite news|last1=Kelley|first1=Lauren|title=Donald Trump: Embracing Contradiction, Not Overthinking|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/donald-trump-embracing-contradiction-not-thinking-too-much-20150911|work=Rolling Stone|date=September 11, 2015}}