| HOUSE OF TRUMP, HOUSE OF PUTIN The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia Craig Unger New York: Dutton, August 2018 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-524-74350-5 | ||||
| ISBN 1-524-74350-X | 354pp. | HC/FCI | $30.00 | |
| Page 22: | "In his spare time, Donald worked enough with his father to learn the real estate game, running errands, hosing down construction sites, and collecting those coins from the laundry rooms at the seven high-rises his father called Trump Village." |
| Extra word: S/B "collecting coins". |
| Page 32: | "Then the Bratva began to migrate to the West." |
| Terminology: this word is never explained, and is not indexed except as part of the phrase "Solntsevskaya Bratva" which appears only on page 59. The phrase is related to "Solntsevskaya organization" or Solntsevskaya group." |
| Page 111: | "He was adamant that he had not committed a single crime when building his business empire, and argued that outsiders still failed to understand the period of lawlessness that reigned in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union..." |
| This ellipsis fooled me into thinking it was a punctuation error. It is part of an extended quotation from a report by William Taylor, then US ambassador to Ukraine. It is long enough in my opinion to need special formatting. |
| Page 142: | "In In 2005, he built a thirty-five story Trump Tower in White Plains, New York." |
| Word choice: Was Trump still building properties at this time? |
| Page 162: | "Initially, when Sater was first asked about his ties to Cohen..." |
| Extra word: Was Sater initially asked first, or first asked initially? S/B "was asked". |
| Page 351: | The phrase "Solntsevskaya Bratva" is indexed on pp. 58-9, 63, and 198. |
| Index error: It appears only on page 59. |
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