I decided to read both these book after Carney was elected PM and I finally finished them both.
Carney's books is 100% propaganda. I have a major in finance and I mastered in statistics with a financial focus from a top 100 university, so I understand everything he's talking about. I work in banking and have for over a decade. All my option courses outside of finance were economics courses.
Carney literally cites Karl Marx more than any other person in his book. He frames so many economics/finance topics in a completely unfair way to make his ideas sound better. He sets up so many strawmans in his book it starts to get difficult to stomach at some points. His book was total trash. I learned absolutely nothing from it except how fucked Canada is.
Trump's book on the other hand is absolute gold. It's funny, there's actually a lot of good content to learn from. I happen to do loans for large apartment complex developments ($30m+) right now and everything Trump talks about is very real and the way he handles it is ingenuous at times. Just learning about some of the negotiations he conducted with the city and banks is illuminating. His advice is sound. Also, I can confirm based on my experience everything he says he feasible and true. It makes sense. It's the complete opposite of Carney's book.
I read Carney's book and I felt like I needed to take a cold shower to get rid of all the dirt that was in this book. It felt like lie after lie after lie and misrepresentation after misrepresentation. I felt dirty reading it. It's written at a high enough level that to a layman, they wouldn't pickup on everything Carney is misrepresenting but to the layman, it'll sound smart. Trump never wrote his book this pretentious and it's easy for anyone to follow but I can confirm given my experience that everything Trump discusses is 100% plausible and I can't say it isn't true because it sounds pretty true from what I know and I experience in his industry.
When I finished Trump's book, I actually learned a lot and I'll probably take a lot of what Trump said to heart and practice some of it in my industry. It's a useful book. I've read other books like How to Win Friends and Influence people but I'd consider Trump's book far more pertinent to the modern day than Carnegie's book, especially if you're in real estate development or any sort of business that requires negotiating with people and dealing with the government.
Usually reading a leftist book or writing gives a sleazy feeling that is hard to digest, it’s because if you know better, you can see they always try to manipulate and obfuscate data or arguments instead of being straightforward. They also go to extremes trying to be poignant instead of letting the information speak for itself. It’s something I’ve noticed on whether a person can stomach Sowell or not, he’s extremely direct and very unemotional in his writing and arguments and does so with “controversial” topics, this rubs leftists (and women) the wrong way because they want to be coddled by emotional writing and they love diatribes that reinforce the socially constructed narrative of the time.
I've read Marx's work and I prefer that to Carney's book. Modern leftists are way worse than older ones. Modern leftists write like they're an authoritarian dictator whom only a fool wouldn't believe and accept their drivel while older leftists write like they're actually trying to convince you of something.
Leftist books are full of ideals and "if I were dictator, this is the world I'd run" kinda of childish LARPing.
Trump on the other hand is "Yeah, I'm great. And this is how I got deals done. Follow what I do and you too can win like me." Just talks about himself and how to win. It's an obvious difference in mentality.
This is one of the reasons why they tried to make his book forbidden to read. If you read it and saw how he negotiated, you would also see how he would do things with modern day stuff. His personality is also pretty obvious from the first paragraph, so that can't be hidden either.
It's amazing how often people try to make a book to be evil, so then no one reads it. They write more words about its evils than the actual book itself. Yet somehow the book has been around longer and still in print than the books being touted and forgotten.
Have you read them both? Yes, I realize Trump didn't write it but the stories he tells in them align with the history to date available online that happened after the book was written. Stuff like his non-compete clause with the Hyatt that he got sued over 5+ years after the book was written, etc... The author must have consulted Trump and wrote what Trump dictated. Carney's book might have been entirely written without even consulting Carney, tbh.
I can't remember where, but he talks about a Camaro with his name on it. The car doesn't get sold, but a few make it out of the lot. One is on display at a place called Dezerland, which is some crazy Billionaires show off area.
Art of the Deal was a massively recommended book for decades before Trump went into politics, both for learning how to do business and just general outlooks on life.
You can hate the modern Trump for all sorts of reasons, but his book has stood the test of time for a reason.