<Li> Contain the costs </Li> <P> Trump was persuaded to produce the book by Condé Nast owner Si Newhouse after the May 1984 issue of Newhouse's magazine GQ--with Trump appearing on the cover--sold well . Schwartz was hired to work on the book, and began working with Trump in late 1985 . He interviewed Trump and--with permission from him--listened in on his phone calls . </P> <P> According to Schwartz in July 2016, Trump wrote none of the book, choosing only to remove a few critical mentions of business colleagues at the end of the process . Trump responded with conflicting stories, saying "I had a lot of choice of who to have write the book, and I chose (Schwartz)", but then said "(Schwartz) didn't write the book . I wrote the book ." Former Random House head Howard Kaminsky, the book's original publisher, said "Trump didn't write a postcard for us!" The book was published in November 1987 by Random House, with the authorship given as "Donald Trump with Tony Schwartz". </P> <P> Schwartz was the subject of a July 2016 article in The New Yorker in which Schwartz describes Donald Trump unfavorably and relates how he came to regret writing The Art of the Deal . He also stated that if it were to be written today it would be very different and titled The Sociopath . Schwartz repeated his self - criticism on Good Morning America, saying he had "put lipstick on a pig". In response to these claims, Trump's attorneys have demanded that Schwartz cede all his royalties from the book to Trump . </P>

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