Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

It may be a tad dated. In 1925 and 1926, a potential political leader wrote down reasons for his interest in politics and a blueprint for a nation. People who ignored this book were surprised when they found the thoughts and ideas being applied. In 2016, following the expiry of the copyright held by the Bavarian state government, the book was republished in Germany for the first time since 1945 The United States now has a political leader who is not afraid of writing down his blueprint for the nation. In the 2018 book “Fire and Fury,” author Michael Wolff has interpreted that blueprint as he sees it by quoting and interviewing several people who are supposed to be in the know. Even though “Fire and Fury” may suggest a cabal or hidden agenda, it just reads like any old evening news program of this time. For the politically charged on the left and on the right, they might be able to read something in this book and say, “There I told you so.” I found the only real reason to find to read this book was to keep politically informed of the time. This will also help keep one from being surprised when finding this leader's thoughts and ideas being applied.

Michael Wolff adds nothing to the conversation that we already don't know. The White House chaos, the Bannonites are against the non-Bannonites, no-one is able to control Trump. What Fire and Fury does tell us though, is how the key power-brokers interact with each other on a day-by-day basis. This book uncovers the alliances, leakings, and back-stabbings happening behind the scenes that we see every day. We hear stories of what Jarvanka and Bannon leak to the press. That leads one to question, who is leaking to Michael Wolff about these claims? Who is going to benefit most from this book's release? Wolff's stories are heavily influenced by Bannon's point-of-view. We hear nothing about Pence or Reibus, and we only hear negative things for the Jarvanka side. Even the epilogue mentions how Bannon is to gain from today's chaos. Why I chose this to be a 3/5 instead of a 4/5 was due to Wolff's writing style. Have you ever had a friend that reads a dictionary a lot and tries to sprinkle complex terms in their writing? Yeah, Wolff writes like that. There were times I had to pull out Google to translate words Wolff sprinkled in. (Seriously, what is a joie de guerre? Googling that term only leads you back to this book. If anyone finds the answer, please let me know!) But I digress. Wolff's chapters and thoughts seemed unorganized at best. I found myself asking many times what the chapter's content had to do with its title. One problem I had with Wolff's writing style was that he often lacked sources for his claims. I understand that he had to protect the sources of his claims. Yet that hurts Wolff's credibility instead of helping. Read this book like a tabloid gossip magazine. If you read this book for a cause of a deeper review, you will be disappointed. Wolff does give us insight into the Trump administration. But without credible, cited sources, you cannot take the claims with more than a grain of salt.

This is a detail book inside Trump chaotic White House. Is it a fortune to elect this old guy to the highest office with the climax of incendiary call for action on January 6 2021 to a "patriotic" assault on Congress to certify the electoral votes in his favor. Who is in self deception of the winning is "stolen" and Made America Great in Covid19 deaths? This book may be a chart against what Trump did in his "The Greatest One Term in American History"!

I lean left of center and even for me this book was written in a way that was difficult to read due to how biased it was against Trump and the rest of the WH. I was hoping for something a little more balanced and fair.

This author was at times very dark but could be almost light and humorous describing a chaotic presidency. It almost seems too unreal to believe, but it fits the narrative so closely to what we all suspected all along as spectators from the outside.

Wonderful, truthful book. Very interesting read. I highly recommend it.