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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Hardcover – January 5, 2018

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#1 New York Times Bestseller

With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.

Since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, the country―and the world―has witnessed a stormy, outrageous, and absolutely mesmerizing presidential term that reflects the volatility and fierceness of the man elected Commander-in-Chief.

This riveting and explosive account of Trump’s administration provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office, including:
-- What President Trump’s staff really thinks of him
-- What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama
-- Why FBI director James Comey was really fired
-- Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn’t be in the same room
-- Who is really directing the Trump administration’s strategy in the wake of Bannon’s firing
-- What the secret to communicating with Trump is
-- What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The Producers

Never before in history has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.

“Essential reading.”―Michael D’Antonio, author of Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success, CNN.com

“Not since Harry Potter has a new book caught fire in this way…[Fire and Fury] is indeed a significant achievement, which deserves much of the attention it has received.”―The Economist

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"What makes Fire and Fury important is that it is not just about Trump, but a product of the same culture that produced Trump: It is 'reality' journalism, in the same way that Trump is a 'reality' character." ―The Atlantic

"It is not a book. It is the book. If there is only one book Washington political reporters will read this year...then this is it.... [Wolff] is a wicked stylist and keen observer, with a justly earned reputation for approaching his subjects with fangs bared and talons sharpened.... A perfect karmic delivery system."―The Weekly Standard

"The pages of Wolff’s book are littered with insults and intrigue, backstabbing and dysfunction."―The Washington Post

"To the many ironies of Donald Trump’s presidency can be added the fact that a man who does not read books has helped cause a publishing sensation.... Mr Wolff’s muckraking skills, cattiness, cynicism and feel for human weakness, especially among the rich and famous, make him well-qualified for the job."―The Economist

"An undeniably juicy chronicle of a presidential administration that in just one year has been beset by numerous scandals and crises.... [Wolff] gives the reader a you-are-there sense of events without resorting to an unneeded dramatic writing style." ―The San Francisco Chronicle

"Wolff’s lasting achievement here is not his headline-grabbing revelations but the skillful, enthralling, and utterly terrifying way he depicts the unqualified, unprepared, and downright unusual characters to be found wandering the halls of the White House in the first half of 2017 as well as their near bloodsport-level conflicts." ―Entertainment Weekly

"What makes the book significant is its sly, hilarious portrait of a hollow man, into the black hole of whose needy, greedy ego the whole world has virtually vanished."―The Guardian

"The White House has naturally denied and decried Wolff's account, but even if it's only halfway accurate, it presents an appalling view of a frighteningly unqualified and unprepared gang that can't think straight."―Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Michael Wolff is the author of the bestselling, authoritative trilogy about the Trump White House: Fire and Fury, Siege, and Landslide. His other books include the seminal biography of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News. A two-time winner of the National Magazine Awards, he has been a columnist for New York magazine, Vanity Fair, British GQ, the Hollywood Reporter, and the Guardian. He lives in New York City with his family.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Henry Holt and Co.; First Edition (January 5, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 321 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250158060
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250158062
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.45 x 1.12 x 9.5 inches

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Michael Wolff has received numerous awards for his work, including two National Magazine Awards. He has been a regular columnist for Vanity Fair, New York, the Hollywood Reporter, British GQ, USA Today and the Guardian. He is the author of seven books, including the international phenomenon Fire and Fury, the bestselling Burn Rate and The Man Who Owns the News. He lives in Manhattan and has four children.

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A must-read for both opponents and proponents of Donald J. Trump as President
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2018
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Michael Wolff is a great story-teller, evoking strong images of people of Trump & Co. entangled in jealousy, intrigue, deception, incompetence, hubris, and ignorance. If the events had taken place in some distant, but familiar country, the narrative would be engrossing and even addictive to read as something in the tradition of Greek tragedy. The events are known from news reports, but Wolff provides color and immediacy. If anything, the breathtaking degree of detail is too great to be journalism, because the author could not have been a first-hand observer of many of the events. He does say that he had many -- anonymous -- interviews with people of the White House. Rather, the engaging narrative is more like "historical fiction", in which real events are described with embellishments to provide verisimilitude. Viewed in this way, the book is an engaging "page-turner."

However, the events that Wolff describes are real and take place in this country, and there are intense political connections. That fact changes everything. Depending upon the reader's political preference, this book may range from being a very engaging read to a despicable scandal sheet. The strongly anti-Trump readers will be having Raves, and the strongly pro-Trump readers will be in denial. There is room for readers between these two extremes to read, learn, and to reflect on the real events, apart from the embellishments.

I don't know Wolff's credentials as a journalist, but based on this book, he is a very good story-teller. He begins with the assertion that Trump & Co. had no expectation that he would win, and as a consequence, they were totally unprepared for that event. His narrative provides a clean timeline of major events that have been well documented by others. There were no huge surprises compared to existing public accounts of the atmosphere of the Trump World, and many of the accounts ring true with what has been said elsewhere. However, the amount of detail offered is new and breathtaking. It reads much like contemporary notes taken by a firsthand witness to the events. The author essentially states that that is not the case; rather he has assembled a narrative from information he received from numerous people within Trump & Co., whose closeness to the actual events described is not -- cannot -- be revealed. However, it is an easy conclusion that Steve Bannon was a major source.

One of the most important events described is the leading up to the meeting of Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort with Russians in June 2016 at Trump Tower, and the fallout when knowledge of the meeting becomes public a year later. There is panic among the principals while traveling to and from Germany for the G20 Summit when the NY Times article is about to be filed. Wolff's narrative is exceptionally vivid in describing the mixture of panic, confusion, infighting, blame-laying, desperation, and incompetence of those involved in generating a response to the article.

One place where Wolff falls down is the Epilogue. It reads like an afterthought. The book should have simply ended with Bannon's departure and avoided the temptation of prognostication. Not only is the tone different from the rest of the book, but some of it simply did not work out "as planned."

There is an extreme irony: The satirical article titled "We Have a Serious Problem" by Douglas McGrath in the New Yorker of 18 January 2016 on the developing Trump candidacy could well be used as the prologue of this book. It begins with Trump deciding to run as a publicity stunt, and ends with him saying, "We have a serious problem ... I might win." At the time it was written, it was a harsh parody. Now, the meshing of the satire before and the reality now is unsettling. Harvey Weinstein is even mentioned in the first paragraph, albeit in a different context from that of today!

Think of this book as a good movie about real historical events. Whether or not the movie is correct in details, its vivid images form the lasting memory of the events. It will become a defining moment in the Trump saga, and it is a must-read for both opponents and proponents of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

“Fire and Fury” is a gossipy insightful look into the unstable Trump White House. Best-selling author, Michael Wolff takes the reader inside the White House and with extraordinary access provides an eye-opening expose. This revealing 328-page book includes the following twenty-two chapters: 1. Election Day, 2. Trump Tower, 3. Day One, 4. Bannon, 5. Jarvanka, 6. At Home, 7. Russia, 8. Org Chart, 9. CPAC, 10. Goldman, 11. Wiretap, 12. Repeal and Replace, 13. Bannon Agonistes, 14. Situation Room, 15. Media, 16. Comey, 17. Abroad and at Home, 18. Bannon Redux, 19. Mika Who?, 20. McMaster and Scaramucci, 21. Bannon and Scaramucci, and 22. General Kelly.

Positives:
1. As interesting a book as you will find. A page turner.
2. In the Author’s Note, Wolff describes his methodology and in some instances acknowledges that some accounts are in conflict and lets you the reader be the judge.
3. The book is easy to follow as Wolff engages the reader with interesting stories and characters. Who knew we had a reality TV soap opera in the White House?
4. In spite of all that the press has leaked on the book, it is still worth reading.
5. This book is a gossip wonder fest, everybody has an opinion on everybody and it’s out in the open for you to read. “In Ivanka and Jared’s view, Conway was a cussed, antagonistic, self-dramatizing cable head, and Powell, they hoped, would be a deliberate, circumspect, adult guest on the Sunday morning shows.”
6. Interesting insights throughout. “As the campaign came to an end, Trump himself was sanguine. He had survived the release of the Billy Bush tape when, in the uproar that followed, the RNC had had the gall to pressure him to quit the race.”
7. Trump’s traits are here for the world to view. “Early in the campaign, in a Producers-worthy scene, Sam Nunberg was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate: “I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.””
8. Get your soap out; it’s going to be a dirty ride. “Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.”
9. Trump the president. “He had somehow won the race for president, but his brain seemed incapable of performing what would be essential tasks in his new job. He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required. On the most basic level, he simply could not link cause and effect.”
10. Bannon’s views are the backbone of this book. Here is his philosophy. “Bannon’s strategic view of government was shock and awe. Dominate rather than negotiate. Having daydreamed his way into ultimate bureaucratic power, he did not want to see himself as a bureaucrat. He was of a higher purpose and moral order. He was an avenger. He was also, he believed, a straight shooter. There was a moral order in aligning language and action—if you said you were going to do something, you do it.”
11. The greatest asset of Trump the candidate. “The Apprentice, and embracing a theory that would serve him well during his presidential campaign: in flyover country, there is no greater asset than celebrity. To be famous is to be loved—or at least fawned over.”
12. Trumpism. “He is uncomfortable when the men around him are not wearing suit and ties. Formality and convention—before he became president, almost everybody without high celebrity or a billion dollars called him “Mr. Trump”—are a central part of his identity. Casualness is the enemy of pretense. And his pretense was that the Trump brand stood for power, wealth, arrival.” Bonus, “But not only didn’t he read, he didn’t listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise—no matter how paltry or irrelevant—more than anyone else’s. What’s more, he had an extremely short attention span, even when he thought you were worthy of attention.”
13. The Russians! “On January 6, 2017—nearly six months to the day after Foer’s piece was published—the CIA, FBI, and NSA announced their joint conclusion that “Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election.””
14. Clever observations included. “It is an anomaly of Republican politics that young people motivated to work in the public sector find themselves working to limit the public sector.”
15. The three forces in the White House exposed. “Bannon was the alt-right militant. Kushner was the New York Democrat. And Priebus was the establishment Republican. “Steve wants to force a million people out of the country and repeal the nation’s health law and lay on a bunch of tariffs that will completely decimate how we trade, and Jared wants to deal with human trafficking and protecting Planned Parenthood.” And Priebus wanted Donald Trump to be another kind of Republican altogether.”
16. Jarvanka, better known as Jared and Ivanka. “What’s more, the success of the speech confirmed the Jared and Ivanka strategy: look for common ground. It also confirmed Ivanka’s understanding of her father: he just wanted to be loved.”
17. Wolff describes all the players in Trump’s world and their roles. “Hicks remained his closest and most trusted aide, with, perhaps, the single most important job in this White House: interpreting the media for him in the most positive way it could be interpreted, and buffering him from the media that could not be positively spun.”
18. Controversial and troublesome insights. “Shortly after Lewandowski, with whom Hicks had an on-and-off romantic relationship, was fired in June 2016 for clashing with Trump family members, Hicks sat in Trump Tower with Trump and his sons, worrying about Lewandowski’s treatment in the press and wondering aloud how she might help him. Trump, who otherwise seemed to treat Hicks in a protective and even paternal way, looked up and said, “Why? You’ve already done enough for him. You’re the best piece of tail he’ll ever have,” sending Hicks running from the room.”
19. Fake news! “All news was manipulated and designed, planned and planted. All news was to some extent fake—he understood that very well, because he himself had faked it so many times in his career. This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the “fake news” label. “I’ve made stuff up forever, and they always print it,” he bragged.”
20. The Comey fiasco explained. “On May 17, twelve days after FBI director Comey was fired, without consulting the White House or the attorney general, Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller to oversee the investigation of Trump’s, his campaign’s, and his staff’s ties to Russia. If Michael Flynn had recently become the most powerful man in Washington for what he might reveal about the president, now Mueller arguably assumed that position because he had the power to make Flynn, and all other assorted Trump cronies and flunkies, squeal.”
21. The Trump doctrine. “In practice, the new foreign policy, an effective Trump doctrine, was to reduce the board to three elements: powers we can work with, powers we cannot work with, and those without enough power whom we can functionally disregard or sacrifice.”
22. Was there obstruction of justice? “The point could hardly have been clearer: if the president was pressuring the director because he feared that an investigation of Michael Flynn would damage him, then this was an obstruction of justice.”
23. Interesting insights that are in play right now. “In fact, said, Bannon, eyes rolling and mouth agape, it was the Jarvanka idea to try to trade off amnesty for the border wall.”
24. The military firewall. “Roger Stone, one of those people whose calls Kelly was now shielding the president from, spread the dark scenario that Mattis, McMaster, and Kelly had agreed that no military action would ever be taken unless the three were in accord—and that at least one of them would always remain in Washington if the others were away.”
25. In short, what do they have in common? “In the wake of the immolating news conference, all eyes were suddenly on Kelly—this was his baptism of Trump fire. Spicer, Priebus, Cohn, Powell, Bannon, Tillerson, Mattis, Mnuchin—virtually the entire senior staff and cabinet of the Trump presidency, past and present, had traveled through the stages of adventure, challenge, frustration, battle, self-justification, and doubt, before finally having to confront the very real likelihood that the president they worked for—whose presidency they bore some official responsibility for—didn’t have the wherewithal to adequately function in his job.”

Negatives:
1. No references, nor links to speak of.
2. A glossary of the players with short bios would have been helpful.
3. Lack of supplementary material like charts, graphs, photos or tables.
4. No formal bibliography.
5. How much of this is factual? It’s hard to tell but it seems that the author is willing to back up his claims with recordings.
6. Trump fans will be disappointed, that may actually be a positive.

In summary, let’s face it, this book is like a car wreck, you just can’t take your eyes off of it. Even if you don’t like politics this is just one of those books that are guaranteed to entertain. The biggest shortcoming of the book is the lack of supplementary material and the fact that most of the book is hearsay though I presume that some can be backed by recordings and confirming testimony. That said, this is worth reading based on entertainment value and its implications.

Further suggestions that will help you get acquainted with their views: “Devil’s Bargain” by Joshua Green, “Collusion” by Luke Harding, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” by Bandy X. Lee, “Unbelievable” by Katy Tur, “What Happened” Hillary Rodham Clinton, “The Plot to Hack America” by Malcolm Nance, and “The Making of Donald Trump” by David Cay Johnston.

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Important reading to understand today`s world
Reviewed in Brazil on February 12, 2018
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Obviously, there is bias in this book. And that is fine as long as you conscious of it and that you consider it while you read the book. I think it does give some inside view of how his government functions and most important what is motivating and driving the decisions made.

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A real life tale of palace intrigue with a terrible foreboding - a terrific read
Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2018
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Palace intrigue provides a particularly compelling form of story-telling. Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, and Game of Thrones all feature family conflict and a struggle for power as central themes to their stories.
Centre to the drama in "Fire and Fury" is Donald Trump as president. All other characters in our story curry favour except that he's like a "Delphic Oracle . . . throwing out prouncements that [have] to be interpreted." On one side of this battle for favour and correct interpretation stand his daughter Ivanka, her husband Jared Kushner and their cronies while Steve Bannon and his allies advance from the other.
Except for a few interviews on the his Breitbart show and ten minutes of conversation, Bannon didn’t know Trump at all before the election. He may have been instrumental to Trump becoming president however to think he could win a battle against the Donald's favourite and her husband is a mystery.
It makes me laugh to think that, during the transition period when Trump was elected and he became president, Bannon recommended that the Trump team read David Halberstam’s book The Best and the Brightest. The book is about the hiring of the best and brightest during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and the failure that resulted anyway. All these men were Ivy League university standouts. They were literally, the brightest is not the best. Steve Bannon certainly wouldn’t never have been included among that group. What he expected the rest of the team to get out of the book is a mystery because they too, were not among the best and the brightest.
Of this group of not so best and brightest, Michael Wolf concluded that, “of the dominant characters in the transition, neither Kushner, Priebus, nor Conway, and certainly not the president-elect; had the ability to express an kind of coherent perception or narrative. By default, everybody had to look to the voluble, aphoristic, shambolic, witty, off-the-cuff figure who was both ever present on the premises and who had, in an unlikely attribute, read a book or two.”
According to Mr. Wolf, Trump can’t or won’t read or even skim. He couldn't stand listening to Retired General Kelly, who he hired as Chief of Staff after firing Reince Priebus, because Kelly showed Powerpoint presentations that were long with a lot of information that bored him. But according to Katie Walsh, one of Wolf’s inside informers, “Steve is careful about what he says, and there is something, a timbre in his voice and his energy and excitement, that the president can really hone in on, blocking everything else out.”
Steve’s problem was that he could never have enough power. Even when “Time” put him on the front page of their magazine and an SNL sketch portrayed him as President Bannon, he still hadn’t had enough or headed the obvious maxim that no one should ever out-shine the boss, particularly one like Donald Trump.
Bannon went after the kids, Jared and Ivanka who he referred to collectively as Jarvanka. Likewise, Jarvanka went after Steve. The two groups were responsible for numerous press leaks to the press meant to discredit the other. When the Washington Post reported that Kushner and the Russian ambassador had talked about setting up a private communication channel while the president was in transition, Jaranka blamed Bannon.
The battle did not only involve a clash of personalities. It was also a philosophical one. Ivanka and Jared sought to moderate Donald’s extremism while Bannon wants only to encourage it. For example, the Donald chose to remove America from the Paris Climate agreement while Ivanka was trying to convince him to stay. Bannon sought a “radical isolationism, a protean protectionism, and a determined Keynesianism,” while Jarvanka attempted to moderate that inclination.
Bannon believed that Jared was behind Trump’s decision to fire James Comey which he thought would be stupid before it ever happened. Bannon warned the president that the Russian story was “third-tier” but if he fired Comey, it would become “biggest story in the world.” The warning didn’t matter. The Donald fired him anyway which Mr. Wolf considers perhaps “the most consequential move ever made by a modern president acting entirely on his own.”
Besides being an excellent tale of palace intrigue, it’s also a warning. The title of the book Fire and Fury comes from a speech made by Donald J Trump used to describe the form of retaliation North Korea can expect should it decide to attack the U.S. or one of its allies. The consequences of such an act would result in the death and injury of millions of people. If Trump is capable of acting on his own when making a decision on the firing of the Director of the FBI, would he do the same with the launching of a nuclear warhead?
Combined his impulsivity and the possibility of his diminished mental acuity, (if it was ever that great) Trump could be the world’s greatest military, political and environmental threat.
As Bannon puts it, “the debate . . . [is] not about whether the president’s situation [is] bad, but whether it [is] Twenty-Fifth- Amendment bad.” The 25th Amendment refers to the president’s physical and mental capacity to remain in his position.

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I’m another one who bought this book to help prevent censorship. Since apparently the republican sycophants won’t impeach, until it’s to their benefit, of course, I think buying this book and helping to take it to a number one spot is almost our moral and civic duty. Money well spent.

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Ce livre donne froid dans le dos. Quand on s'est intéressé à cette première année de mandat trumpienne, ce livre offre une perspective incroyable. Page après page, on reste ahuri par ce que l'on lit. Car aussi incroyable que les faits relatés paraissent, on ne peut s'empêcher d'y reconnaître la vérité. A quel degré ? Chacun le jugera.

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