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Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics Hardcover – January 29, 2019
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The instant New York Times-bestselling memoir from the outspoken former governor--an "explosive" (Guardian) "must read" (Hugh Hewitt) account of Chris Christie's life in politics including his "not to miss" (Entertainment Weekly) insights into Donald Trump.
After dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, Chris Christie stunned the political world by becoming the first major official to endorse Donald Trump. A friend of Trump's for fifteen years, the two-term New Jersey governor understood the future president as well as anyone in the political arena--and Christie quickly became one of Trump's most trusted advisers. Tapped with running Trump's transition team, Christie was nearly named his running mate. But within days of Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton, Christie was in for his own surprise: he was being booted out.
In Let Me Finish, Christie sets the record straight about his tenure as a corruption-fighting prosecutor and a Republican running a Democratic state, as well as what really happened on the 2016 campaign trail and inside Trump Tower. Christie takes readers inside the ego-driven battles for Trump's attention among figures like Steve Bannon, Corey Lewandowksi, Reince Priebus, Kellyanne Conway, Jeff Sessions, and Paul Manafort. He shows how the literal trashing of Christie's transition plan put the new administration in the hands of self-serving amateurs, all but guaranteeing the Trump presidency's shaky start. Christie also addresses hot-button issues from his own years in power, including what really went down during Bridgegate. And, for the first time, Christie tells the full story of the Kushner saga: how, as a federal prosecutor, Christie put Jared Kushner's powerful father behind bars--a fact Trump's son-in-law makes Christie pay for later.
Packed with news-making revelations and told with the kind of bluntness few politicians can match, Christie's memoir is an essential guide to understanding the Trump presidency.
- Print length432 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGrand Central Publishing
- Publication dateJanuary 29, 2019
- Dimensions1.5 x 6.3 x 9.2 inches
- ISBN-100316421790
- ISBN-13978-0316421799
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―Maggie Haberman, The New York Times
"Explosive.... Exceptional as a chronicle of the score-settling and animosity that drove key decision-making in Trump's nascent presidency."―The Guardian
"The former New Jersey governor delivers plenty of jabs at political enemies.... But beneath all the record-correcting and score-settling... he offers a defense of the hyper-confrontational style that first made him famous, and later helped make Trump president."
―McKay Coppins, The Atlantic
"[A] fantastic book."―Stephen Colbert, "The Late Show"
"Stunning...intriguing.... Christie's history with the campaign means that when he talks about Trump and those around him--as he does in... Let Me Finish--we should all listen..."
―CNN "The Point with Chris Cillizza"
"Candid."―ABC "This Week"
"Go get [Let Me Finish], you will not regret it. If you like this show, you'll like the stories he tells....Great.... A perspective from inside and outside the administration."―Brian Kilmeade, FOX News' "The Brian Kilmeade" show
"[Let Me Finish] tells quite a story."
―Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC
"Not to miss."
―Entertainment Weekly
"A fascinating book."―Trevor Noah, "The Daily Show"
"If you've been missing the force of Chris Christie's personality since he returned to private life last year, you can now get your fix at full blast from his autobiography, Let Me Finish...a big, loud book."―NPR Book Review
"News-making stories.... A shrewd and strategic book.... Christie defends his decisions with the gritty realism of the political professional."―David Frum, The Atlantic
"Juicy, inside-the-campaign tales."―The Daily Beast
"A must-read. Really, it's the best of its kind, at least the equal of any political memoir I've read.... Let Me Finish is a terrific work ... candidly honest .... Funny."―Hugh Hewitt, "The Hugh Hewitt Show"
"Lively, swaggering."
―Publishers Weekly
"That rarest of books penned by a politician: one worth reading."―The Star-Ledger
"Plenty of juicy Jersey details."―North Jersey News
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- Publisher : Grand Central Publishing (January 29, 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 432 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0316421790
- ISBN-13 : 978-0316421799
- Item Weight : 1.38 pounds
- Dimensions : 1.5 x 6.3 x 9.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #387,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #559 in United States Executive Government
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About the authors
ELLIS HENICAN is a New York Times bestselling author, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and a popular TV news pundit. He is also the voice of Stormy on the hit Cartoon Network series Sealab 2021.
His latest book, Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics (Hachette Books), is written with Chris Christie, who served as Governor of New Jersey and was also a candidate for president in 2016. The book is a no-holds barred look at politics from a Trump campaign insider and friend.
Ellis is a born storyteller. His How to Catch a Russian Spy, written with American double-agent Naveed Jamali (Scribner), was called “the funniest book I read” by Washington Post critic Carlos Lozada and is being made into a feature film by director Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer, The Amazing Spider Man) for Twentieth Century Fox.
Recently, Ellis also wrote Trumpitude (Post Hill Press), a comic look at being Donald Trump, and The Uninvited with Craig Schmell (Post Hill Press), the true story of a young impostor with a talent for crashing celebrity events who discovers what's really important in life.
Ellis wrote the ground-breaking Vigilance with longtime New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly (Hachette Books) and Worth Dying For with Navy SEAL commander Rorke Denver (Howard Books), a follow-up to their special-ops bestseller Damn Few (Hyperion). Making It in America, with furniture titan John Bassett III (Center Street), tells how U.S. companies in the Trump era can survive foreign competition and keep American jobs at home. Bassett, who refused to close his factory in Virginia, is the focus of an upcoming HBO miniseries being developed by Tom Hanks’s Playtone Productions.
Ellis’s other books include the bestsellers Home Team with New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton (New American Library), In the Blink of an Eye with NASCAR legend Michael Waltrip (Hyperion, optioned for film by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions), DOC with troubled baseball pitcher Dwight Gooden (New Harvest), The Party’s Over with former Florida Governor Charlie Crist (Dutton) and Amish Confidential with Lebanon Levi Stoltzfus (Gallery Books), star of the Discovery Channel hit series Amish Mafia.
Ellis’s book, Tuesday’s Promise (Hachette Books), tells the story of former Army captain Luis Carlos Montalván. A Purple Heart Iraq War veteran, Montalván battled crippling PTSD before connecting with his Golden Retriever service dog. In this profoundly honest book Ellis and Luis talk about loss, friendship, war and the loving bonds – all before reaching a tragic and heartbreaking end.
For 20 years, Ellis wrote a three-day-a-week column in New York’s Newsday, sharing his unique take on the news and leading the paper to a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Union Square train wreck. He also wrote a weekly column “Trump’s America” for Metro Newspapers. Ellis hosted a daily, afternoon-drive radio show on WOR/710 in New York and a weekend show for Bloomberg Radio. He spent 13 years as a contributor to the Fox News Channel and now appears frequently on CNN, MSNBC, FOX, i24 and other networks where he is known for his lively analysis of national politics. He is also an in-demand keynote speaker, panel moderator and event host.
A native of New Orleans, Ellis is a graduate of Jesuit High School, Hampshire College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he won the top student prize, the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship. He lives in New York City with his criminal-defense attorney wife, and he keeps finding excuses to return to his beloved New Orleans..
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Chris Christie is an American politician, former United States Attorney, and political commentator who served as the 55th Governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. During his tenure, he chaired the Republican Governors Association and President Trump's Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission. Christie became an ABC News contributor in 2018 after leaving office.
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019This is one of the best recent books by a politician. I found it very readable and engaging, and as another
reader noted, it reads the way that he speaks. At the beginning of the decade, in 2011, the GOP seemed
to be lacking in strong Presidential candidates, and there was a strong push for Chris Christie to enter
the race. At the end of the decade, he has completed his term, returned to his family and private practice
due to a number of turns of events.
He begins with family, marriage to Mary Pat, and the 1986 Mets. After just a few chapters on youth,
he tells of being a U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, and the Charles Kushner case which would haunt him
many years later. During this time Christie also became friends with Donald Trump, and they and their
wives would socialize. Trump's sister, the judge Marianne Barry, approached Christie when her brother
wanted to meet him. Christie observes that Donald collected people and relationships who might
be handy later on, even if it wasn't clear exactly how.
As Governor he had battles with the teachers' unions, and his blunt speaking style worked. He easily
won re-election and his outspokenness became a new political model, which was taken to a greater
extreme by Trump. The beginning of Christie's downfall was Bridgegate, where a traffic jam was
created at the George Washington bridge to retaliate against the local mayor. Christie says his mistake
was giving too much trust to his friend, whose flaw was that he was unable to say no to the scheme
of his own best friend.
In 2012 Christie said no to running for President, because he wasn't ready yet, but for 2016 he expected
a four way race with Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz as the other front-runners. While Bush was
not successful, he drained most of the money from the establishment. It seems that Christie should have
seen that coming and had a plan. His debate exchanges with Rubio became famous when Rubio kept
repeating the same points about Obama.
After dropping out of the race, Christie endorsed Trump, which at the time seemed out of nowhere, as
only Sarah Palin and later Jeff Sessions did so early on. This book helps to make more sense out of that,
because the relationship grew gradually over 15 years. Christie comes across as street smart and book
smart, and could help to focus the wild Trump energy. Furthermore, he had a dislike for Hillary Clinton
and didn't want her to be president. Christie was in charge of the transition team, and coming up with
names to fill the cabinet. Trump saw the concept of preparation as "bad karma" but left it to Christie.
In the end, they had to wing it as they had everything else. Christie was interested in being vice president
or attorney general, but not in any other cabinet job. For VP, it came down to Gingrich, Christie and Pence,
and finally just Christie and Pence, but he barely lost out.
Then he was fired from the transition team job, undermined by Kushner and Bannon as well as Priebus.
The legendary Christie wit is quite hilarious when directed toward Bannon, who can look "pretentious
and like an unmade bed" at the same time. He was "clearly brilliant and clearly arrogant, and thought
he knew everything about everything". But it was Kushner who was really in charge of everything, and
didn't trust Christie because of his prosecution of his father years before. Interestingly, Ivanka is presented
fairly neutrally. Christie claims that while he wanted to help Trump and the country, the others (with exceptions
like Conway) had their own agendas. He also contests the information that Bannon gave to Bob Woodward
and other authors.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2019I read “Let Me Finish” because I wanted to understand why a man of Chris Christie’s caliber, reputation, accomplishments, intelligence and integrity could possibly be friends with Donald J.Trump, and why he would, time and time again, go back to the Trump Train for, what looked like to many Americans, just one more dose of disrespect and abuse.
I read Christie's book in one day and when I was done, I went back to reread parts I had flagged as bothersome. I think it's important to note here that it’s tempting to give lower stars in a book review when you are upset and find displeasure with the author or the author’s politics, but it’s not fair to the author. It’s incredibly difficult to write a book, especially if you are not a writer. Angry and mean-spirited one-star reviews should be dismissed as relevant.
“Let Me Finish” is good but not great, and I did see some mistakes that the editors missed, but I gave it four stars anyway. The writing is blunt and in your face, but was that on purpose because "blunt and in-you-face honesty" is who Christie is? The style of writing didn't matter to me, because I think he did a good job of telling his story the way he wanted to tell it. He wanted to set the record straight because many of the stories out there about him are false.
A writer loses some points with me when their anger and bias makes its way into their otherwise well-written and credible book, and I did see Governor Christie's deep dislike for most things Left. Leave it out of the narrative because it makes you look small and petty and it diminishes your efforts. For example, at Trump’s wedding to Melania, Hillary Clinton “held court like a queen” when greeting people. No she didn’t. Hillary was just being Hillary, and Christie dislikes most things Hillary.
The title of this review "An Astonishing Display of Political Opportunism" came from Christie's former national finance chair, Meg Whitman. She was referring to Christie's endorsement of Trump for President. When I heard that Christie had endorsed Trump that was my reaction as well. "What's in it for me?" "How can I benefit from my close relationship with Trump?" From Christie's explanation in the book, he believed he had a lot to offer the forty-fifth president and his administration. With Christie's experience as a US Attorney, Governor of New Jersey, and decades in the political arena, he could help Trump become the successful president this country desperately needs. The cast of characters that surrounded "the boss" had their own best interests in mind, not the President's and not the country's. Those people, not Trump, are the true villains here.
After Mr. Christie spent over two years of being accused of knowing about and possibly orchestrating Bridgegate, and after the turmoil and never-ending investigations that eventually cleared him of any wrong-doing, Christie’s good friend Donald J. Trump says to the world that Christie knew about Bridgegate. He threw him under the bus and he enjoyed it. "Who does that?" Trump does; that's who. At one point in the book the governor of New Jersey--the man who many thought would be our next president--admitted he felt so fortunate that Donald J. Trump hadn't given him a nickname. Wait! What? Really? The man who Christie is loyal to over and over and over again, breaks his promises, treats him with disrespect, and does life-altering damage. But Christie gets back up, forgives Trump, and goes back for more, which begs the question: Was Christie sacrificing himself for the good of America or was all of this an astonishing display of political opportunism? I chose to believe it was the former because I do believe the story as Governor Christie told it.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2019Yes, you read that headline correctly, I am a Democrat (moderate) and I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Got the audible after reading 1/3 of it, and re-started it; definitely worth the bit extra money. Christie reading his own book really helps you understand how this man thinks. And yes, I do think he will be president one day. He is fiscally responsible and can persuade others to see his point of view. He was a Republican governor in a Democrat state, he did it with respect. The background and insights are stunning, and now I understand why Romney never visited N.J. after Super Storm Sandy! Poor guy never had a chance with the people giving him advice; Christie invited him, Romney declined. Dumb decision, Romney. But the thing I like the best about this book is how I saw Governor Christie as a politician and a family man. He is open about admitting his mistakes and looks back at decisions he made and used those errors to improve as a politician and a husband and father. Definitely a book to buy, even if you are not a Republican. Like I said, I'm a Democrat and I love this book!
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- Rob_S8Reviewed in Canada on May 18, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Christie is very concise in his writing. Tells great stories about Donald and very informative on his career and experiences.
- NANCY TREASUREReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Gov Christie PATRIOT, LOYAL, KIND, DEDICATED WORKER, BETRAYED
Fabulous book, about This NJ no nonsense Politican ,his early life, entrance into POLITICS , becoming NJ STATE Prosecutor. How he sent NJ REAL ESTATE Thug Charles Kushner to Prison,and his Trump Campaign experience as head of 6 months Transition preparation by him and expert experienced workers, thrown out by Jared Kushner & wife Ivanka ,Jared Kushners - Ivanka's Vendetta Power Play against Christie for sending his Dad Charles to Prison how ALL The Trump Adult Children ran the Campaign , Insisted upon Mike Pence as VP. Donald Trump's MASSIVE EGO, SHALLOW Bully, a NON READER who LISTENED ONLY TO his inexperienced Family. HOW Christie's Transition Work was thrown out,ignored as ok by Trump, and all the Leaks to the Press by Ivanka & Jared Kushner,lies about Christie & anyone they didn't like and the betrayal by Shallow Donald Trump of giving Atty Gen and the VP positions according to Ivanka & Jared Kushner's choice. How they insisted James Comey be FIRED against THE STAFF ADVICE TO wait for now due to possible Lash back, Trump listened to Ivanka-Jared who heard Comey was looking into Russia thier finances & Dad Charles ,fired Comey causing the Mueller Investigation. How Jared & Ivanka always conviently got out of town -on vacation when thier bad advice-interference Exploded. How without regret/ shame Pres ElectDonald Trump Dismissed Gov Chris Christie who returned to running NJ watching the havoc of Trump's Oval Office .All the Power Plays by THE FAMILY...Really a wonderful book by Chris Christie who, just says the FACTS without Hate.
One person found this helpfulReport - Mr R HaldenbyReviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2019
4.0 out of 5 stars Some great snippets.
A good read, and highlights his views on Trump.
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- FrankReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read
I couldn't put this book down, a great insight into the workings of government and politics. Chris is a shrewd politician but I have to question that he let his loyalty to Trump interfere with his judgement and the instance that stands out for me was the meeting with Trump when Jared came (whose father Chris had prosecuted) . Surely he must have realised that Trump had set him up for a confrontational meeting for his own entertainment. This is the best book I've read for a long time but Trump used and abused Chris as he does to so many others and this I fear will reflect badly on his future career. Yet again Trump guilty of corrupting everything he touches. I like many others just can't understand why people don't just see Trump for what he is? Chris seems only to willing to blame Trump's advisors rather than Trump himself, which again I believe shows a lack of management judgement and unfortunately leaves a serious cloud over him.
- Betty PeeblesReviewed in Canada on February 3, 2019
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
A different perspective of Christie treated unfairly by the president, he must be glad to be out of the mess called the White House.