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A review by jmdaly95
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
3.0
Book Number One in 2018
So let's get this out of the way at the start, this book is political trash reading. And it's great.
During the first year of the Clinton Administration, they let Bob Woodward hang around the West Wing for nine months and the result was The Agenda. Fire and Fury is exactly the same book but written by an author who basically turns it into a 350-page version of Page Six of the NY Post.
Everyone who talked to Michel Wolff was out to either trash Trump and Bannon and defend themselves.
It's clear from reading it the main source of the book is Bannon and he's epic in self-destruction through the narrative.
Like last years Devil's Bargain by Joshua Green this is not a historical book but one that's out to settle grievances and self-protection.
It's an interesting glimpse of a West Wing that is clearly dysfunctional, you don't learn anything new if you've been watching the news over the past year. What it does demonstrate is that this Lord of the Flies environment will lead to an administration that will be in for a single term and not see any forward motion in any new policy or initiative.
So let's get this out of the way at the start, this book is political trash reading. And it's great.
During the first year of the Clinton Administration, they let Bob Woodward hang around the West Wing for nine months and the result was The Agenda. Fire and Fury is exactly the same book but written by an author who basically turns it into a 350-page version of Page Six of the NY Post.
Everyone who talked to Michel Wolff was out to either trash Trump and Bannon and defend themselves.
It's clear from reading it the main source of the book is Bannon and he's epic in self-destruction through the narrative.
Like last years Devil's Bargain by Joshua Green this is not a historical book but one that's out to settle grievances and self-protection.
It's an interesting glimpse of a West Wing that is clearly dysfunctional, you don't learn anything new if you've been watching the news over the past year. What it does demonstrate is that this Lord of the Flies environment will lead to an administration that will be in for a single term and not see any forward motion in any new policy or initiative.