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Title details for Commander in Cheat by Rick Reilly - Available

Commander in Cheat

How Golf Explains Trump

by Rick Reilly
Rick Reilly
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"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."— The New Yorker
"Golf is the spine of this shocking, wildly humorous book, but humanity is its flesh and spirit." — Chicago Sun-Times

"Every one of Trump's most disgusting qualities surfaces in golf." — The Ringer

An outrageous indictment of Donald Trump's appalling behavior when it comes to golf — on and off the green — and what it reveals about his character.
Donald Trump loves golf. He loves to play it, buy it, build it, and operate it. He owns 14 courses around the world and runs another five, all of which he insists are the best on the planet. He also claims he's a 3 handicap, almost never loses, and has won an astonishing 18 club championships.
How much of all that is true? Almost none of it, acclaimed sportswriter Rick Reilly reveals in this unsparing look at Trump in the world of golf.
Based on Reilly's own experiences with Trump as well as interviews with over 100 golf pros, amateurs, developers, and caddies, Commander in Cheat is a startling and at times hilarious indictment of Trump and his golf game. You'll learn how Trump cheats (sometimes with the help of his caddies and Secret Service agents), lies about his scores (the "Trump Bump"), tells whoppers about the rank of his courses and their worth (declaring that every one of them is worth $50 million), and tramples the etiquette of the game (driving on greens doesn't help). Trump doesn't brag so much, though, about the golf contractors he stiffs, the course neighbors he intimidates, or the way his golf decisions wind up infecting his political ones.
For Trump, it's always about winning. To do it, he uses the tricks he picked up from the hustlers at the public course where he learned the game as a college kid, and then polished as one of the most bombastic businessmen of our time. As Reilly writes, "Golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man." Commander in Cheat "paints a side-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater" (Esquire), revealing all kinds of unsightly truths Trump has been hiding.

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  • Release date

    April 2, 2019

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781549118692
      • File size: 203094 KB
      • Duration: 07:03:06

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      March 1, 2019
      How golf explains life and reveals character, particularly when the golfer under consideration is Donald Trump.Renowned sports columnist Reilly (Tiger, Meet My Sister...: And Other Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said, 2014, etc.) has known the president for 30 years, from back when he was a star columnist for Sports Illustrated and Trump called him "my favorite writer!" He would often embellish, introducing the journalist to strangers as the president or publisher of SI. Being with Trump back then was "like spending the day in a hyperbole hurricane." If Reilly was once a Trump favorite, he no longer will be, and it will be interesting to see if Trump responds to--or even acknowledges--this book. One of the revelations is that a large percentage of Trump's more caustic tweets have actually come from a guy initially employed as his caddy. This is a book about how Trump lies and cheats constantly, qualities that may come with the territory in his newfound field of politics but which the author believes have no place in the gentlemanly sport of golf. Trump lies about his handicap, about the quality and reputation of his courses, about the profitability or lack thereof of these operations, and even about how much he actually plays. He is apparently "on a pace to play almost triple the amount of golf Obama played," though he frequently criticized his predecessor for playing so often. He cheats on his score, his putts, and the lies of his shots, which miraculously make their way from the rough or even the water onto the fairway. "You can think Trump has made America great again," writes Reilly at the conclusion of his amusing, entertaining assessment of a congenital liar. "You can think Trump has made America hate again. But there's one thing I know: He's made golf terrible again."Since Reilly takes golf more seriously than politics, making "golf terrible again" is the worst sin of all, but it's one that explains so many others.

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