Fire And Fury

Inside The Trump White House

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Fire And Fury (2018, Henry Holt & Company)

Hardcover, 336 pages

Published Sept. 5, 2018 by Henry Holt & Company.

ISBN:
978-1-250-15806-2
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A 2018 book by Michael Wolff, detailing the behavior (and hatred) of U.S. President Donald Trump, the staff of his 2016 presidential campaign, and the White House staff.

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Wolff gives an accurate take on the infighting at the White House. My impression is that to a vast degree the book is correct. Wolff has tapes of the interview and had an expert attorney do a libel reading, so I seriously doubt if the facts are incorrect. Steve Bannon is clearly a primary source, and his temperament pervades the accounts. He comes off to me as a smitten, egocentric, vindictive man who is obsessed with his revolution, willing to ride Trump like a bull at a rodeo for as long as it takes to win his worldview.

To stay for long, though, Bannon needed to thwart two other forces inside the White House, Priebus and the Jarvankas (sounds like a bad band name), who in turn assailed him, all of them using leaks. Others quoted are Dina Powell (seems like a smart lady in an untenable situation), Sean Spicer, …

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