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Text from article: But the book is also much more than an excavation of tax returns. Buettner and Craig delve into all the aspects of Trump’s life to show how he was able to create the facade that he did. This is a page turner, with spectacular anecdotes. For instance: Trump was able to salvage at least the construction of his first casino project, a Harrah’s in Atlantic City, by bringing in Holiday Inns Inc. (which owned Harrah’s at the time) as a partner. But before it would get on board, the company wanted to know that construction was underway. So Trump faked it. He had his construction manager rent every piece of earth-moving equipment he could find so that on the day the casino’s team visited, “dozens of bulldozers and backhoes pointlessly pushed mounds of earth around the 2.6-acre site in an elaborate ruse with no purpose other than to fool his new business partner.”