TITLE: I DID IT MY WAY

BY ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI
DELIVERY: SEPTEMBER 30, 2017
TARGET LENTGH: 60,000 WORDS

Anthony Scaramucci was President Donald Trumps White House Communications Director for
ten days. This book is the story of those ten days -- from the perspective of the outspoken Wall
Streeter-turned Washingtonian who lived them.

In retrospect, it was around Day 6 of his appointment as Communications Director that things
took a strange turn, when his comments about the White House chief of staff created an uproar,
leading to Scaramuccis ouster. What the public doesnt know was the countless other
interactions involving Sean Spicer, General McMaster, Sarah Huckabee and even the Vice
President.

It wasnt the first time during the Trump presidency that Scaramucci had courted controversy,
either. There was the time just a month earlier, during his few weeks as a head of the
governments ExportImport Bank, when three CNN reporters got fired over an erroneous story
about Scaramucci having nefarious ties to Russia. And the time five months before that when
he was nominated to the Public Liaison position and proclaimed that members of Congress
know nothing about money.

That remark was a hint of the larger free-market vision behind Scaramuccis thinking, which is
outlined in full for the first time in this book. The comment was harsh but true -- the kind of
reality-check Washington needs right now and that the American people crave.

But by Day 10 of the Communications Director appointment, Scaramucci was on his way out of
the job.

He was also in the middle of a divorce at the time. And had just become a dad again and barely
seen his kid. And given up his company to take a job with Trump in Washington.

But then, maybe Communications Director wasnt his destiny.

If Scaramucci has at times been so frustrated by Washington that he was driven to colorful
language, its really because hes a facts guy, not a spin guy. As this book explains, he came
to Washington, DC from the world of finance in New York City -- a world of hard numbers that
cant always be sugarcoated or wished away in some pretty speech. Washington could benefit
from the wisdom of a few more hardheaded numbers guys, as this book will explain.

As someone who didnt seek the job, Scaramucci at the immediate onset didnt care if he lost
the job.
With a sense of nothing to lose, Scaramucci will take you exclusively behind the scenes in his
first tell-all book.

Washington is going to go broke and take us all down with it if it doesnt learn to look past the
latest scandalous comment or pretty speech and deal with some scary facts about the
economy, and thats part of Scaramuccis story, too.

Scaramucci may have some advice for the President yet -- and for America if it can handle
some tough talk.Like President Trump, who grew up in Queens and went into real estate,
Scaramucci is more New Yorker than Washingtonian. His father was a construction worker on
Long Island, where he grew up. He was student council president at his high school but didnt
plan on becoming a politician. Lawyer, maybe. He can argue. He graduated from Harvard Law
School, in fact, after getting an economics degree from Tufts in New Jersey.

You might say he immediately started practicing economics, not law, after getting out of
Harvard, though.

Scaramucci went to work in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, right around the time the
Berlin Wall was coming down. The whole world was learning what a disaster socialism can be
for an economy -- a message that still hasnt fully sunk in in Washington.

Over the next two decades, he lived the capitalist life, founding two investment firms, with the
second, SkyBridge Capital, now having over $12 billion in assets. That led to hosting the show
Wall Street Week, dispensing Adam Smith-influenced advice like his forerunner on that series,
Louis Rukeyser.

Some of President Trumps supporters might be surprised, then, to learn that Scaramucci was
also a fundraiser for Barack Obama before getting tired of his Wall Street-bashing and
becoming Mitt Romneys campaign finance co-chair for his 2012 run. How could the same
guy find things to like about Obama, Romney, and Trump?

Scaramucci always thought there has to be a way to make Americans rich without losing touch
with compassion and the things that really matter in life. Thats why one of his previous books is
called Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How to Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul. To those
who know him only from those final ten days of working for the White House -- or who havent
yet heard how Washington added to the tension in his marriage and personal life -- he
may seem like an odd person to advocate moderation and balance, but thats part of his
messsage. Scaramucci celebrates capitalism but also wants the Republican Party to be
compassionate enough to embrace gay marriage. He loves Trumps tough talk but can also
understand Americans yearning to reduce gun violence.

When Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama talked about global trade, Scaramucci was rooting for
them. But when the Democratic Party started sounding like a socialist party, he hoped Trump
would provide a badly-needed alternative and help America prosper, not just imitate the big-
government ways of the rest of the world.
In this book, Scaramucci tries to make sense of the seeming contradictions in our
current political scene, in which people from the worlds of high finance and real estate
have had to become the champions of struggling working-class Americans, and in which
the first step toward a stable and prosperous globe is an America that sticks up for itself.
He explains some of the opposing forces in his own political and business story and how
they reveal whats really going on both in Washington and on Wall Street.
He takes the reader through each of those strange last ten days in the White House,
from the time President Trump offered him the Communications Director job to the
announcement it was over. Youll understand how a decent guy ends up swearing at the
press and fighting with other political appointees in one of then craziest cities on this
planet.
He explains in full the vision he outlined in a White House memo on Day 10, fated to be
his final full day in the Communications Director job. That vision that may yet contain
useful advice for a government in turmoil. An ironic central point: the President, advised
Scaramucci, can pick fights with the press, but the Communications team should not. He
envisioned a complaint box for members of the press looking to vent. He wanted to
alert the world to more positive news coming out of the White House to decrease the
negativity that pervades politics. He imagined FDR-like fireside chats being given by
the President, who has charisma most of Washington could never match. The chats
could include live questions from the public and Cabinet members. Maybe a national
lottery to win a round of golf with President Trump would even be a nice touch.
Scaramucci dreamt of humanizing the President, in short. One day later, Scaramucci
was out, and the story he was eager to tell was his own, a profoundly human story in a
town full of cold budget numbers and vicious political operatives -- but also one with big
implications for how to change the way Washington operates.

In this book, youll see the personal and political mix. Youll be right there with Scaramucci,
flying with the President, eating in his private White House dining room, and picking up the
pieces when so many sensitive details of it all got leaked to the press.

Scaramucci was under an intense spotlight in those final days, but not everything got leaked to
the press. Theres still a lot the public doesnt yet know. Find out here how strange things really
get in Washington. The full, untold Scaramucci story might even help save the country. The
Trump presidency still offers a golden opportunity to do that.

In summary this book will take you behind the scenes of what happened in the White House, in
a very colorful way, it will give the reader a glimpse into who Anthony Scaramucci is and it will
offer suggestions directly to the President on how he is able to succeed over the next few years
in the White House.