TITLE: I DID IT MY WAY BY ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI DELIVERY: SEPTEMBER 30, 2017 TARGET LENTGH: 60,000 WORDS
 Anthony Scaramucci was President Donald Trump’s 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 Scaramucci’s ouster. What the public doesn’t know was the countless other
interactions involving Sean Spicer, General McMaster, Sarah Huckabee and even the Vice President.
It wasn’t 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
government’s 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 Scaramucci’s 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 wasn’t his destiny.
 If Scaramucci has at times been so frustrated by Washington that he was driven to colorful language, it
’s really because he’s 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
can’t 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 didn’t seek the job, Scaramucci at the immediate onset didn’t 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 doesn’t learn to look past the
 latest scandalous comment or pretty speech and deal with some scary facts about the economy, and
that’s part of Scaramucci’s 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 didn’t
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 hasn’t 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 Trump’s supporters might be surprised, then, to learn that Scaramu
cci was also a fundraiser for Barack Obama before getting tired of his Wall Street-bashing and
becoming Mitt Romney’s 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. That’s 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 haven’t
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 tha
t’s part of his
messsage. Scaramucci celebrates capitalism but also wants the Republican Party to be
compassionate enough to embrace gay marriage. He loves Trump’s 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
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