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I had vaguely known that Trump’s father developed outer borough properties and Donald chose Manhattan to make his own mark in the world. He even mentions at some point that sons of great men often reject their father’s business as too hard to live up to. He says this somewhere in the middle of the book, but I got the feeling that his accomplishments and failures have been a response to that challenge to live up to Fred Trump. You get no hint of rivalry. What you get is a son who wants to be so good his hard-scrabble father will have to acknowledge it. At the heart of his father’s influence is a blue-collar sensibility embodied as a pro-business New York Democrat. Trump is not very political in the book. He will praise Mario Cuomo. He finds Jimmy Carter inept and Ronald Reagan suspect. The mayor of New York, Ed Koch, is his major nemesis in the city, less for ideology and more publicity and ego. His ideology is trying to accomplish things other people scoff at.