Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
by Michael Wolff
View on GoodreadsMichael Wolff's 2018 first Trump book — the Bannon-era, first-year, Mooch-and-Scaramucci White House — built on what Wolff describes as semi-permanent residence inside the building during the early months.
Core ideas
- The book's central revelations — that nobody in the inner circle, including Trump himself, expected to win, and that Steve Bannon's exit was as scorched-earth as it looked — landed because the contemporaneous quotes were captured before anyone realized the consequences.
- Wolff's method is famously contested — his ethics on sourcing, on-the-record/off-the-record handling, and reconstructed dialogue have been challenged by named subjects — and the book has to be read with that caveat.
- The portrait of Trump as cognitively diminished and indifferent to policy was novel in 2018; later books, especially Woodward's, largely corroborate the substance even where they question the method.
Published2018
Pages322
ISBN9781250158062
ReadAug 2024
