Fire And Fury:

Inside The Lair

Michael Wolff’s book, Fire And Fury: Inside The Trump White House is stranger than fiction; if Donald Trump, current President of the United States, had been created by a novelist, people would not have believed such a character could exist. But there he is, ensconced in the White House, keeping the world entertained and terrified with his shenanigans.

Wolff got unprecedented access into the White House, because, as he writes, nobody told him to go away. His book, a terrific blend of fact, gossip, interviews and unnamed sources, written in reckless tell-all tone, makes for a fascinating read, mainly because who would have believed Trump could have become President (nobody in his campaign team thought he would win and his wife Melania, according to Wolff, wept inconsolably when he did), and then hang on, flexing his muscles and shooting his mouth off at every occasion, as the media-–that he hates—slams him repeatedly.

Steve Bannon, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Rupert Murdoch, and a cast of hundreds jump out of the pages of newspapers and TV screens into the book, and Wolff rips many masks off as he goes along.  Making fun of the foot-in-mouth Trump is the media’s delight these days, and Wolff has distilled all that disdain into Fire And Fury.

Many ‘facts’ may have been embellished, but the book is a page-turner— savage, witty and disturbing. It’s a mark of America’s free press and democracy that Wolff could manage to write such a book about the most powerful man in the world.

Fire And Fury: Inside The Trump White House

By Michael Wolff

Publisher: Hachette

Pages: 321