Rick Reilly~SIGNED IN PERSON~Commander in Cheat~1st Edition + Photos!!

Description: COMMANDER ***** IN *****CHEATHow Golf Explains Trump By Rick Reilly An Great Gift Idea ! - for a friend - or just for yourself ! Hachette Book Group, New York, NY, 2019. Hardcover. SIGNED! SIGNED! SIGNED! Beautiful, Brand New! Stated First Edition, Later Printing! Signed in Person by Rick Reilly directly on the full title page. (NOT signed to anyone)(NOT PRE-SIGNED ON BLANK PUBLISHER'S TIPPED-IN PAGE!!!) BONUS: Photos of Rick Reilly at his signing event will be included with the signed book! Book is Brand New and Unread. Opened only to be signed. No marks, no inscriptions. Dust jacket is Brand New, NOT price-clipped, in a removable protective mylar cover. A Must Have For Any Rick Reilly or U.S. Politics Fan !! ~ A BEAUTIFUL AUTOGRAPHED FIRST EDITION FOR COLLECTORS ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming." -- The New Yorker "Golf is the spine of this shocking, wildly humorous book, but humanity is its flesh and spirit." -- Chicago Sun-Times "Every one of Trump's most disgusting qualities surfaces in golf." -- The Ringer An outrageous indictment of Donald Trump's appalling behavior when it comes to golf -- on and off the green -- and what it reveals about his character. Donald Trump loves golf. He loves to play it, buy it, build it, and operate it. He owns 14 courses around the world and runs another five, all of which he insists are the best on the planet. He also claims he's a 3 handicap, almost never loses, and has won an astonishing 18 club championships. How much of all that is true? Almost none of it, acclaimed sportswriter Rick Reilly reveals in this unsparing look at Trump in the world of golf. Based on Reilly's own experiences with Trump as well as interviews with over 100 golf pros, amateurs, developers, and caddies, Commander in Cheat is a startling and at times hilarious indictment of Trump and his golf game. You'll learn how Trump cheats (sometimes with the help of his caddies and Secret Service agents), lies about his scores (the "Trump Bump"), tells whoppers about the rank of his courses and their worth (declaring that every one of them is worth $50 million), and tramples the etiquette of the game (driving on greens doesn't help). Trump doesn't brag so much, though, about the golf contractors he stiffs, the course neighbors he intimidates, or the way his golf decisions wind up infecting his political ones. For Trump, it's always about winning. To do it, he uses the tricks he picked up from the hustlers at the public course where he learned the game as a college kid, and then polished as one of the most bombastic businessmen of our time. As Reilly writes, "Golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man." Commander in Cheat "paints a side-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater" (Esquire), revealing all kinds of unsightly truths Trump has been hiding. Reviews "Relying on testimony from playing partners, caddies, and former Trump employees, Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming....P.G. Wodehouse would have approved."―The New Yorker "Assails Trump's 'ethics deficit.'"―Associated Press "Commander in Cheat is an incredibly creative book, regardless what you think of President Trump, regardless of where you are on the political spectrum. It takes us places behind the press conferences and the staged interviews....It take us into Trump's past, places where there were no cameras, no speech writers, no handlers, no aides. It is just Donald Trump with his appetites, Donald Trump with his excesses, Donald Trump with his flaws. Donald Trump with both his love for golf, and his propensity to play games with the truth."―The Providence Journal "Building on his firsthand experience by interviewing scores of golf pros, caddies, and opponents, Reilly paints a side-splitting portrait of a congenital cheater."―Esquire, Most Anticipated Books of the Year "Golf is the spine of this shocking, wildly humorous book, but humanity is its flesh and spirit....It's all hilarious in Reilly's gifted hands."―Chicago Sun-Times "Reilly uses golf to reveal larger truths. Or, in this case, lies."―The Arizona Republic "Great writing...If you really don't like Trump, this is your perfect book."―Chris Matthews, MSNBC's Hardball "Sportswriting can be a lens into any part of our culture, and [Commander in Cheat] proves my point... a clever way to make sense of White House chaos."―The Week, Books to Read in 2019 "There's a new tell-all book about the president...The specific anecdotes are where Commander in Cheat really takes off."―Stephen Colbert, The Late Show "Commander in Cheat is one of the most surprising pieces of muckraking of the Trump era....Reilly's right to say Trump sees a golf course like he does the Oval Office...Every one of Trump's most disgusting qualities surfaces in golf."―The Ringer About the AuthorCurrently a screenwriter and author, Rick Reilly for years wrote for Sports Illustrated and appeared on and wrote for ESPN. In addition to being voted the NSMA National Sportswriter of the Year eleven times, he has also been recognized with the Damon Runyon Award for Outstanding Contributions to Journalism. USA Todaycalled him, "the closest thing sportswriting ever had to a rock star." ** We have several signed copies of this book. The signature in the book you receive may vary slightly from the one pictured in this listing. ** Please Check out my other items! **** FREE PRIORITY MAIL SHIPPING TO U.S. RESIDENTS **** Shipping & Handling: Standard shipping to U.S. buyers is via USPS Priority Mail (Estimated delivery time according to USPS is about 2-5 business days). Express Mail is available upon request for additional fees. International rates may be higher depending on destination. Please email questions. All books are padded securely in bubble wrap and boxed to prevent damage. Payments: We accept PayPal. (Please note that if payment is made by echeck, shipping will be delayed until echeck is cleared). 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