Research by Kranish and Fisher for the book was supervised by '' The Washington Post '' editor Marty Baron . Baron was editor of '' The Boston Globe '' when it received the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Boston Catholic sexual abuse scandal . While editor of '' The Washington Post '' , the paper was recognized with two Pulitzer Prizes in 2014 for reporting on National Security Agency surveillance and food stamps in America , one in 2015 about United States Secret Service security issues , and one in 2016 for reporting about all deaths caused by police in 2015 . Baron said in 2016 about research for the book , " Given that he could ascend to the most powerful position in the world , Trump 's life and career deserve to be explored in the greatest depth . That 's what we intend to do , with a huge investment of reportorial and editing resources and with a staff that consistently has led the field in covering his volatile candidacy . " The 2016 Trump presidential campaign initially refused to allow the candidate to be interviewed ; Trump was eventually interviewed by Kranish and Fisher . During the writing process for the book , Trump threatened a lawsuit against Kranish and Fisher , commenting in an interview , " And I will bring more libel suits — maybe against you folks . " After the book 's publication , Trump urged his Twitter followers not to purchase the biography . Trump posted in an August 2016 tweet , " The @WashingtonPost quickly put together a hit job book on me – copies of some of their inaccurate stories . Do n't buy , boring ! " '' Trump Revealed '' was first published in 2016 in hardcover format by Scribner . It was released one month after the 2016 Republican National Convention . '' The Washington Post '' additionally made available on their website a large archive of research materials used in the composition of the biography , consisting of 400 documents . An audiobook of the same title was published that year by Simon & Schuster Audio , narrated by voice actor Campbell Scott , with total running time of 15 hours and 3 minutes . An ebook format was published the same year by Simon & Schuster , under the title , '' Trump Revealed : The Definitive Biography of the 45th President '' . A paperback edition was released by Scribner in 2017 under this title . A Dutch language edition was published in 2017 , and the book was published in English in London that year
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