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Donald Trump’s Long Con

1 month ago | thenation.com | Charles Leerhsen |John Ganz

Books & the Arts / April 7, 2025 Dog Eat Dog The books of Donald Trump. Donald Trump’s Long Con His trilogy of books published in the 1980s and 90s offer a vantage point into the president’s craven and cruel worldview. Ad Policy Donald Trump and Roy Cohn at a press conference.(Getty) This article appears in the May 2025 issue. It’s arguably a waste of time to read Donald Trump’s books. In the first place, he didn’t write them; they weren’t even written by the same ghostwriter.
Why You Think Ty Cobb Was a Racist (When He Wasn't)

Jun 4, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Charles Leerhsen

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Why you think Ty Cobb was a racist (when he wasn't)

Jun 4, 2024 | newsweek.com | Charles Leerhsen

We live in a time when villains never seem to get their comeuppance. So the recent news that Major League Baseball had re-crunched its trove of statistics and taken the legendary Ty Cobb down a notch from first to second place among all-time batting champs had many sports fans celebrating. Cobb, who played mostly for the Detroit Tigers from 1905 to 1928, was a pioneering superstar who had an astounding lifetime batting average of .367, a number that was until recently considered unsurpassable.
Trump as you've NEVER seen him: With deeply intimate and VERY surprising insight, his 90s ghostwriter exposes the president-in-making as a neurotic, socially awkward loner - and reveals Donald's fascination with how to handle women | This is Money

Jan 8, 2024 | thisismoney.co.uk | Charles Leerhsen

This article was originally published by Air Mail. 'Well, what was that like?' people often ask me, at a cocktail or dinner party, if it somehow comes up that I was once a ghostwriter for Donald Trump. The question puts me in a tight spot. If my first word back isn't extravagantly negative, I fear they'll take me for a Trumpster, turn on their heel, and leave me conversing with my canapé.
December 16, 2023 - Air Mail

Dec 15, 2023 | airmail.news | Alan Zweibel |Nancy Jo Sales |Charles Leerhsen |Dana Brown

SHOOTING THE MOON NO JOKE LARVAL TRUMP FATES AND FURIES PAY-STUB CLUB REELPOLITIK ARIGATŌ, MAFIOSO BUT, WAIT, THERE’S MORE!… Issue No. 231 The View from Here A veteran comedy writer is suddenly rendered speechless Phases of the Moon Under the Cherry Moon, Prince’s directorial debut—a black-and-white passion project set on the glistening Côte d’Azur and starring Kristin Scott Thomas—bombed when it premiered in 1986.
Donald Trump's Ghostwriter in the 1990s, Charles Leerhsen, Tells All

Dec 15, 2023 | airmail.news | Charles Leerhsen

“Well, what was that like?” people often ask me, at a cocktail or dinner party, if it somehow comes up that I was once a ghostwriter for Donald Trump. The question puts me in a tight spot. If my first word back isn’t extravagantly negative, I fear they’ll take me for a Trumpster, turn on their heel, and leave me conversing with my canapé.
The Ascent of Anthony Bourdain

Jun 16, 2023 | emmys.com | Charles Leerhsen

Before he became the world's coolest television host — introducing viewers to places they'd never dreamed of seeing and dishes they'd never imagined eating — Anthony (or Tony, as he was known by friends and colleagues) Bourdain was a successful New York chef and a writer. When he died by suicide in 2018, he was in production on Parts Unknown, the highest-rated hour on CNN.