Sighard hohner biography of barack trump

Long before making three consecutive bids for the US presidency, Donald Trump was America's most flamboyant billionaire.

Julian Hohner Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The New York real estate mogul's life was splashed all over tabloids and television in the decades leading up to his improbable run for the White House. His household name and unfiltered campaign style helped him defeat seasoned politicians - but a controversy-filled tenure saw him booted from office after a single term. Now 78, the Republican is again defying the odds as he mounts a stunning political comeback that could end with him back behind the president's desk in the Oval Office.

Trump is the fourth child of New York real estate tycoon Fred Trump. Despite the family's wealth, he was expected to work the lowest-tier jobs within his father's company and was sent off to a military academy at age 13 when he started misbehaving in school. After earning a degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, he became favoured to succeed his father when his older brother, Fred, chose to become a pilot.

Fred Trump died at 43 from alcoholism, something that his brother says led him to avoid alcohol and cigarettes his entire life. He shifted the company's focus from Brooklyn and Queens to glitzy Manhattan. He helped manage his father's extensive portfolio of residential housing projects in the New York City boroughs, and took control of the company - which he renamed the Trump Organization - in His father, who Trump describes as "my inspiration", died in His celebrity and media profile expanded with his business empire.

Under Trump, the family business shifted from residential units in Brooklyn and Queens to glitzy Manhattan projects. The famed Fifth Avenue became home to Trump Tower, arguably the mogul's most famous property and his home for many years. The rundown Commodore Hotel was restored as the Grand Hyatt.