The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump

Mary Jordan

Simon and Schuster, Jun 16, 2020 - Biography & Autobiography - 352 pages

In this “scrupulously reported biography” (NPR) Jordan documents how Melania Trump had discussing being First Lady nearly two decades before she landed in the White House and how she encouraged her husband to enter the race for president.

Based on interviews with more than one hundred people in five countries, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump is “an extraordinary work” (Salon) that draws an unprecedented portrait of the first lady. We see that behind the scenes Melania Trump is not only part of President Trump’s inner circle, but for some key decisions she has been his single most influential advisor.

Jordan interviewed key people in Melania's close circle who speak publicly for the first time and uncovered never-before-seen photos and tapes of the tall woman with “tiger eyes,” as a judge in an early modeling contest said. The Art of Her Deal shows Melania’s ascent from a modest life, tracing her journey from childhood under a communist dictator to her complicated relationship with Donald Trump. The picture that emerges is “that the first lady is not a pawn but a player... and a woman able to get what she wants from one of the most powerful and transparently vain men in the world” (NPR).

And while it is her husband who became famous for the phrase “the art of the deal,” this is the story of the art of her deal.

Contents

• I have an opinion: 1
• Olive Branch?: 13
• Chasing Melania: 25
• Face of the Year: 47
• Making Her Way in Manhattan: 81
• He wanted my number but I didnt give it to him: 99
• First White House Run: 127
• Melania or Kara?: 151
• Arent I lucky?: 169
• Jewelry and Caviar: 199
• We give a space to each other: 221
• Be Best: 231
• The Protector: 253
• Acknowledgments: 287
• Photo Credits: 329

About the author

Mary Jordan is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The Washington Post and a bestselling author. Her book, Trump on Trial, coauthored with her husband and Washington Post colleague Kevin Sullivan, features reporting from dozens of Washington Post journalists, and traces the investigation, acquittal, and aftermath of the impeachment of Donald Trump. Jordan’s New York Times bestselling book, The Art of Her Deal, an unauthorized biography of Melania Trump, was published in June 2020. Jordan and Sullivan are also authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, the story of Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, who were kidnapped in Cleveland and held for a decade. They previously wrote The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia’s Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. They were the Washington Post’s co-bureau chiefs in Tokyo, Mexico City, and London for fourteen years.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump
• Author: Mary Jordan
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2020
• ISBN: 1982113421, 9781982113421
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Fashion; Biography & Autobiography / Political; Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous