Marrying the slimy and carnivalesque, Fire and Fury occasionally reads like a parody of New Journalism with its elaborate scene-setting omniscient narrator (who at one point appears to refer to himself in the third person as "the journalist") some grand, misquoted Shakespeare and a colorful vocabulary that swings from SAT words (apogee, persiflage) to bro slang (man crush, douchebag). And if Wolff misidentifies some facts here and there - titles, years, peripheral people - that is the boring stuff. That is all according to Michael Wolff's seamy, gossipy, vindictive new book, Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, an account of Trump's first year in office. I'll get all the good stuff out of the way first: President Trump likes to eat cheeseburgers in bed his hair is the result of scalp reduction surgery and deft, even architectural, styling he has three TVs in his bedroom his advisers speculate about whether or not he can read Steve Bannon called Ivanka "dumb as a brick" Trump called Sally Yates a "c***" Hope Hicks and Corey Lewandowski had an affair that ended in a street fight and Trump's inner circle walks around in a state of "queasy sheepishness, if not constant incredulity" at the president's behavior. This review contains language that some may find offensive. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Fire and Fury Subtitle Inside the Trump White House Author Michael Wolff
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