Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
by Michael Wolff
View on GoodreadsWolff's third Trump book, covering the post-election months through January 6 and beyond, with extensive direct access to Trump in the Mar-a-Lago period after he left office.
Core ideas
- The portrait of Trump's relationship to the loss is the book's spine — a working argument that his post-election behavior was less about political strategy than about an inability to accept the result on any psychological level.
- The Wolff method (closeness to Bannon, willingness to take subjects' framings on the record) again produces material no other reporter got — the Trump quotes here are reconstructed but consistent across multiple Wolff books and other reporters' work.
- The January 6 reconstruction adds little to Karl, Cheney, and the Select Committee, but the Trump-as-protagonist angle is distinctive among the period's books.
Published2021
Pages336
ISBN9781250830036
ReadAug 2024
