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Fire and Fury
- Inside the Trump White House
- Narrated by: Michael Wolff, Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government
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Publisher's Summary
"[Holter Graham] uses his deep, elastic voice to punctuate key ideas, and he speeds up and slows down to create tension...The result is a wonderful performance of a most important audiobook." — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes an author's note read by Michael Wolff
#1 New York Times Bestseller
With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, the country—and the world—has witnessed a stormy, outrageous, and absolutely mesmerizing presidential term that reflects the volatility and fierceness of the man elected Commander-in-Chief.
This riveting and explosive account of Trump’s administration provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office, including:
- What President Trump’s staff really thinks of him
- What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama
- Why FBI director James Comey was really fired
- Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn’t be in the same room
- Who is really directing the Trump administration’s strategy in the wake of Bannon’s firing
- What the secret to communicating with Trump is
- What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The Producers
Never before in history has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.
What the critics say
"Holter Graham, a Baltimore native, actor and veteran audiobook narrator, delivers [this] truly bizarre tale of dysfunction in a composed voice. Where a less confident narrator might have allowed a smirking note to emerge, Graham maintains his poise, subtly picking up the narrative's mood in slight modulations of tone and unobtrusively freighted pauses." (Washington Post)
"If you think that bomb cyclones are unique to the weather, then listening to this audiobook will change your mind. This literary perfect storm combines a book the president wants to ban with a narrator, Holter Graham, whose energy and vocal clarity add fuel to the author's incendiary words.... The result is a wonderful performance of a most important audiobook." (AudioFile)
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- Roberta W
- 2018-01-20
Bizarre beyond words
Glimpsing behind the veil of the Trump Whitehouse was a temptation I couldn't resist. I was aghast, I rolled my eyes, I gasped, and I laughed, but I did not cry. But if it was my country, I probably would have. Absolutely bizarre. I now know more about The Donald than I ever wanted, or is good for my psyche. Knowing what has been going on in the inner circle at the helm of USA government is both entertaining and frightening. More of the latter.
The book itself was good, but you could tell it had been rushed into print (audio): rambling, repetitive in parts, jumping around... but it would mean less if it was honed for another month or two.
The narrator was ok, but in the last 1/4 of the book I keep falling asleep. Kind of strange in a riveting tale.
I must say, it was equally bizarre to be listening at the same time as the outfall about the book was going on.
Interesting enough for political junkies and average folk.
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- Cristy
- 2018-01-10
hard to stop listening!
Compelling to hear behind the scenes of what was reported. Bannon seems to be the source for 90%. I believe most of this book. It is confirmed what an attention hungry little weak man Trump is. Basically every bad decision had "Jarvanka" behind it! Highly recommend this one!
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- Blythe
- 2018-04-14
Fascinating and horrifying
Audio book version of this is recommended, as apparently the text version does contain grammar and even spelling errors that may be annoying. I picked this up on Audible and it's a fascinating and horrifying portrait of just how far the White House and the GOP have descended into chaos and incompetence in the service of self-interest. While it's generally agreed that Wolff has exaggerated and embellished a few points, there is SO MUCH detail here (and much of it he does have on tape) that the overall picture it paints still seems clear and believable.
Watching the Trump administration from the outside, it's been hard at times to determine if there's some bigger strategy at work, some conspiracy to subvert what remains of democracy into a full oligarchy, some deliberate attempt to undermine the institutions of the USA. What this book does very well is illustrate that there really is no plan, no conspiracy, so scheme; it's absolutely sheer incompetence and ignorance fueled by self-interest and greed. And I'm not sure which is more terrifying. Trump doesn't have any sinister agenda; he has no agenda at all, and nobody on the White House staff has any control over what he says or decides, and nobody remotely qualified will even accept a job in the White House at this point because it's such a horror show. The book describes a White House so disorganized that there is no interest in filling any position that isn't media-facing; visitors arrive, are screened by military security, and then are left to wander the halls because there's no staff to greet and escort them to meetings. Wolff himself managed to just invite himself in and make himself at home for months on end with nobody to question him. Internal factions fight and undermine each other and the goal of everybody with any agenda is to get the president to think the idea was his own so it might get done, while Trump himself has no interest at all in doing anything but getting nice coverage from the media.
I'm really not sure if I was more scared when it seemed as if the Trump presidency was a sinister conspiracy to undermine democracy in the US, or after reading this book when it is clearly utter chaos and incompetence at every possible level with no clear goals at all. But either way it was a very interesting listen and has cast a new perspective on the daily news.
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- Marco Bourdeau-Villeneuve
- 2018-01-09
Bon mais ...
Plutôt bien livré, cependant il y a certaines longueurs tout au long du livre. On a un peu l'impression que c'est du pareil au même entre chaque chapitre...
Il faut connaître la majorité des ''personnages '' pour bien aimé le livre,
Narration AAA très bien réalisée !
OUI : Pour les fans de politique américaine
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-01-07
Wow.
Excellent story. A wonderful and fast paced read. The political drama of this time. I could not put it down.
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- gregclark
- 2018-01-08
Trump Excoriated By Bannon
We get the sad diabolical backstory and a behind the scenes portrait of the administration's last year in hell. Bannon actually appears as the most conscionable handler of Trump's ADHD, as we watch the populist movement Trump figureheaded spiral into Trump's narcissistic abyss.
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- Trish
- 2021-07-20
Wolfe
A terrific inside account of all the nuttiness going on not only in front of everyone but behind closed doors.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-11-08
Fantastic Read/Listen
If you are at all interested in the absolute chaos in the White House, and the Administration, and you have an open mind - you should check this out. If you're an obsessed Trumper, would watch him shoot someone on 5th Avenue, clap and whoot loudly, and watch him get away with it?...you probably want to pass.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-02-05
Performance went with content perfectly
I don’t know how many times I shook my head during this book. Makes me wonder how he got all the content and how much was based on staffers’ POV. Pretty incredible tale...makes you wish it was fiction. I think the reader stole the show a few times though-especially during Trumps ramblings.
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- RONY ISLAM
- 2018-12-12
Great book
Loved listening the narrative. Amazing book. So many unknown facts I didn't know until listening to this book. Great journalistic work. Well done.
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- grayce tripodi
- 2018-03-24
Absolutely Dead on Right! No, I did not write this lol
Michael. We could be twins, except for our writing style. Everything you wrote was dead on true,I have been saying and writing the same for over two years.
I am not a Trump person, that is being kind. I am a R. Your book was fantastic and so true.
What is also known about Trump is his Narcissistic personality, a DSM-I4 by the APA. THis is a must read book, unfortunately, our country deserves better
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- Gina
- 2018-05-08
Great story but...
as much as I can’t stand anyone from this administration, the fly on the wall accounts sometimes seemed a bit far fetched in its close attention to detail. I feel overall that it is well done though, but requires more discernment of the information than other political accounts I’ve read.
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- Nathan
- 2019-01-22
Steve Bannon tattling outside of Class
How much of this book is factual is something that future historians will have to piece together. But there's no denying the entertainment value of a book like this. Since it's obvious that Wolff let Steve Bannon vent his spleen to get most of the material for this book, we do get a morbidly fascinating look at the White House as a Civil War Battleground between "Globalist" and "Bannonite" factions.
Someone should have clued Bannon in with that line from The Godfather: "Don't ever take sides against the Family."
It might have spared him a lot of grief. Or maybe not. After all, this is the book that got Bannon exiled from Trumpistan (for now).
Frankly, I think that we'll have to wait for several years to pass, and the dust to settle, after Trump exits the White House (whenever and however that happens) to get a thoroughly researched, comprehensive and trustworthy account of his campaign and Administration. That'll be the basis for "Trump's White House - the Movie."
As it is, we don't have enough material for a complete film, just a series of Polaroids.
We're up to our ears in gossipy, Mean Girls-esque, "liars lying about other liars" accounts, each with their own highly personal, and biased, snapshot into the White House.
The main point of Recommendation for "Fire and Fury" is that it's the snapshot taken from Bannon's point of view. Because he was (however briefly) the "Architect of Trumpism" and possibly the single most forceful and influential of the President's flunkies, his account holds more interest for me than the self-pitying, butt-covering screeds of Lewandowski, Manigault-Newman, Christie, or Spicer. The biggest feat this book achieves is getting me to feel even the slightest bit sorry for Steve Bannon, arguably the loudest and proudest proponent of American fascism since Woodrow Wilson.
When Jeff Sessions and James Mattis decide to tell their stories, that will be something I find far more interesting - insights from professionals who went to work for Trump with a sincere effort to uphold the Constitution and do their duty, only to be reviled, spat upon, and flogged out of town by the Trumpites.
I don't pretend for a second that this book is "Essential" or "Indispensable" reporting, if you can even call what Wolff did "reporting." Frankly, it doesn't reveal anything we didn't already know about Trump's narcissism, venality, and malignant stupidity. It just crystallizes it into finer detail, with some gasp-inducing quotes.
I enjoy this book for what it is: a disgraced Washington power-monger talking smack about all the other power-mongers, sycophants, village idiots, egotistical blowhards, and back-stabbing weasels who flock to Trump like fleas to a dog.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-12-08
I deserve a refund
It was a real waste of time and effort, normally I don't believe in the thought of burning a book but this one should be burned immediately.
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- S. Chavez
- 2018-01-15
A must read!!!
If you’ve ever wondered about what was going on in the trump White House this book will give you great insight to the Mayham and madness that’s going on in the current in administration. It also confirms most peoples ideas of why he ran in the first place he never intended to be president he has no clue what he’s doing and if he actually last eight years our country would be in dire trouble
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- Myrica nokes
- 2018-01-29
Not as credible as one would like.
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Probably not. When I began fact checking, I immediately found that the book exaggerated situations. While I am not a Trump fan, I don't want to be misled either. One example of misinformation is when the author discusses Trump's speech to the CIA. When I compared what the book reported to the entire speech on CNN, it was obvious that the book was editing out, and misrepresenting what was said.
Would you recommend Fire and Fury to your friends? Why or why not?
No, primarily because of the misrepresenting information. I prefer my journalism to be factual and allow me to make my own opinion.
Did Fire and Fury inspire you to do anything?
Be more diligent in fact checking.
Any additional comments?
Please leave the spin out of journalism, it's hard enough to get to the truth when people are being factual.
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- Thomas Kay
- 2018-01-26
Difficult to differentiate real from fake info
the author basically starts off the books saying although he's done so much research and interviewed a lot of people He is uncertain what parts of the book are real and fake and sometimes he will let the audience know and other times he leaves it up to the audience to determine. This is a mistake and significantly reduces The credibility of the book. It would have been better if the author had used his research to make an educated guess on what was going on rather than adding conjecture. Increased ambiguity on such an important issue is disappointing. having said that the narrator is top-notch.
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- VC
- 2018-01-21
Entertaining Yet Lacks Credibility
This book would have been so much better if the author was able to eliminate his own bias. I am by no means a Trump supporter, but many points in this book are discredited or provably false with simple observation or common sense. According to this book, Trump is a stumbling, bumbling idiot, who accidentally became president. That is painfully untrue. Whether he is delusional or not, Trump believes he will be/is a great President and it has been his goal to become so for years. To claim otherwise takes so much credibility away from this book, which is sad. It is sad because there are, what I am sure are many moments of truth in this book, but it is deluded by its dishonesty.
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- Melampus
- 2018-01-08
A disappointment.
Most non-fiction comes in with hard facts & supports the initial premise as the book progresses. Sadly, a lot of hype prompted me to purchase this book. I kept yearning for something more substantive & less salacious.
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This book was more commentary than investigative journalism. If you regularly keep informed about politics and policy, there is ZERO need to read/listen this book.
Anyone interested in good journalism should read “Dark Money!”
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- CJFLA
- 2018-02-01
The power of marketing
If your news sources includes the WSJ, NYT and Washington Post, then you pretty much already have read much of what is written in this book. No doubt there is some exaggeration, but all in all, this book is a yawner. Had there not been so much political noise about this book, many people (myself included) would never have bought it. All in all, it was not very good.
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- Xris
- 2018-06-28
Inintéressant et le ton du narrateur est pénible
Inintéressant et le ton du narrateur est pénible a suivre.
J'ai arrêté au bout d'un chapitre
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- Judy Corstjens
- 2018-01-18
Fast paced and fascinating
I don't think there is much point in me reviewing this book as it has been so much in the news. I feel Michael Wolff does a great job communicating (to a UK person) the structure, flavour and atmosphere of the White House during the first 6 months of Trump's presidency.
I will just say what a terrific job Holter Graham does in the narration. His American accent and energetic delivery really animates the stories and frequent quotations. The language is very colourful and Holter communicates the vitriol and exuberance of the speakers involved - particularly Steve Bannon. I don't think if I'd read the book to myself I would have picked up all the meaning and passion behind these quotes; a case of the narrator adding to comprehension of the written word.
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- Jeffrey Kennedy
- 2018-01-08
Historic and Well Acted despite odd pronunciations
Rollicking great journalism and a valuable review of the Donald Disaster. Fly-on-the-wall like never before in history's most dysfunctional White House.