The Art of the Deal: where the shelf starts and how to credit it
Shelf note ·
Trump: The Art of the Deal is the earliest title on this shelf. Random House published the hardcover on November 12, 1987. The publisher lists it as by Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz. If you are putting it on a reading list, that second name belongs in the credit line.
A credit line you can copy
Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz, Trump: The Art of the Deal (Random House, 1987).
If you cite a page number, cite the edition you actually hold. The publisher lists 256 pages for the 1987 hardcover and 384 for the 2015 paperback, and library catalogs may count preliminary pages and plates separately, so page references don’t carry across editions.
Editions the publisher lists
| Format | Imprint | Date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover, 256 pp. (publisher listing) | Random House | Nov 12, 1987 | 978-0-394-55528-7 |
| Ebook | Ballantine Books | Dec 23, 2009 | 978-0-307-57533-3 |
| Paperback, 384 pp. | Ballantine Books | Oct 6, 2015 | 978-0-399-59449-6 |
Our Amazon link goes to the 2015 Ballantine paperback.
Where it sits in the chronology
Nothing on this shelf comes before it. It opens what we call the deal-making memoir lane: first-person accounts of New York real estate and negotiation. Two more books in that lane followed, each with a different collaborator, before the shelf turned toward policy in 2000.
- 1987 Trump: The Art of the Deal, with Tony Schwartz
- 1990 Trump: Surviving at the Top, with Charles Leerhsen
- 1997 Trump: The Art of the Comeback, with Kate Bohner
- 2000 The America We Deserve, with Dave Shiflett, where the shelf turns toward policy
Each book in this run credits a different collaborator: Tony Schwartz, Charles Leerhsen, Kate Bohner and Dave Shiflett. That is why we name the co-writer on every entry rather than once per author.
How to frame it for readers
It is a first-person book. It shows how its credited authors chose to present a late-1980s business career. It is not a neutral history of the deals it describes. If you assign it, pair it with independent reporting from the same years so readers can compare the account with the record.
For how we decide credit lines across the shelf, see How we list books. For the other lanes, see Compare.
Edition dates, imprints, page counts and ISBNs are from the publisher’s listing at Penguin Random House and the matching Open Library record.