The culmination of nearly thirty many years of reporting on Donald Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston requires a revealingly close look at the mogul’s rise to power and prominence.

Covering the long arc of Trump’s career, Johnston tells the full story of how a boy from a quiet section of Queens, NY, would become a completely new and complex variety of public figure. Trump is a guy of great press savvy, entrepreneurial spirit, and politics clout. Yet his career about The Producing of Donald Trump has been suffering from legal issues and mounting controversy.

From your origins of his family’s real estate fortune to his own too-big-to-fail business empire; from his education and early profession to his whirlwind presidential bet, The Producing of Donald Trump provides the fullest picture yet of Trump’s amazing ascendency. Like him or hate him, Trump’s massive influence can be undeniable, and statistics as different as Woody Guthrie (who published a scathing tune about Trump’s father) and Red Scare prosecutor Roy Cohn, mob bosses and high rollers, aswell as the average American voter, have all been taken into his orbit.

Drawing on decades of interviews, financial files, court papers, and public statements, David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump more closely than some other journalist working today, gives us the most in-depth appear yet at the person who would end up being president.