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With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time.
The first nine months of Donald Trump’s term were stormy, outrageous―and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself. In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office.
Among the revelations:
- 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 has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.
New York Times bestselling author of Fire And Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the presidency of Donald J. Trump.
We all witnessed some of the most shocking and confounding political events of our lifetime: the careening last stage of Donald J. Trump’s reelection campaign, the president’s audacious election challenge, the harrowing mayhem of January 6, the buffoonery of the second impeachment trial. But what was really going on in the inner sanctum of the White House during these calamitous events? What did the president and his dwindling cadre of loyalists actually believe? And what were they planning?
Michael Wolff pulled back the curtain on the Trump presidency with his 2 previous bestsellers and now he closes the door on the presidency with a final, astonishingly candid account.
Wolff embedded himself in the White House in 2017 and gave us a vivid picture of the chaos that had descended on Washington. Almost four years later, Wolff finds the Oval Office even more chaotic and bizarre, a kind of Star Wars bar scene. At all times of the day, Trump, behind the Resolute desk, is surrounded by schemers and unqualified sycophants who spoon-feed him the “alternative facts” he hungers to hear―about COVID-19, Black Lives Matter protests, and, most of all, his chance of winning reelection. Once again, Wolff has gotten top-level access and takes us front row as Trump’s circle of plotters whittles down to the most enabling and the president reaches beyond the bounds of democracy as he entertains the idea of martial law and balks at calling off the insurrectionist mob that threatens the institution of democracy itself.
As the Trump presidency’s hold over the country spiraled out of control, an untold and human account of desperation, duplicity, and delusion was unfolding within the West Wing. Landslide is that story as only Michael Wolff can tell it.
Barbed, witty, revealing and entertaining, Too Famous could be an
instant classic. Bestselling author of Fire and Fury, Siege and
Landslide and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff
dissects more of the major monsters, media moguls and vainglorious
figures of our time. His scalpel opens their lives, careers and
always equivocal endgames with the same vividness and wit he
brought to his evisceration of the former president. These
brilliant and biting profiles form a mesmerising portrait of the
hubris, overreach and periodic self-destruction of some of the most
famous faces of the last twenty years. This collection draws on new
and unpublished work - recent reporting about Jared Kushner, Harvey
Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein - and decades of coverage of the most
notable figures of the time - among them Hillary Clinton, Michael
Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, Rudy Giuliani, Alan Rusbridger, Arianna
Huffington, Piers Morgan, Boris Johnson and Rupert Murdoch - to
create a lasting statement on the corrosive influence of being in
the public eye. Ultimately, Too Famous is an examination of how the
quest for fame and power became the driving force of culture and
politics and the drug that alters all public personalities. And how
the need, the desperation, the ruthlessness demanded to fulfil that
quest became the toxic grease that keeps the world spinning. You
know the people here by name and reputation, but it's guaranteed
that after this book you will never see them the same way again. Or
fail to recognise the scorched earth the famous leave behind them.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Landslide cuts deeper than any
previous book about this president, indeed about any president' The
Times 'First there was Fire and Fury, then there was Siege, now
there is Landslide. The third is the best of the three . . .
Required reading' Guardian 'Michael Wolff concludes his Trump
trilogy - with the best book yet . . . Unforgettable' Telegraph
'Wolff is the shrewdest chronicler of Trump' Sunday Times
__________________________________________ 'We won. Won in a
landslide. This was a landslide.' President Donald J. Trump, 6
January 2021 Politics has given us some shocking and confounding
moments but none have come close to the careening final days of
Donald Trump's presidency: the surreal stage management of his
re-election campaign, his audacious election challenge, the
harrowing mayhem of the storming of the Capitol and the buffoonery
of the second impeachment trial. But what was really going on in
the inner sanctum of the White House during these calamitous
events? What did the president and his dwindling cadre of loyalists
actually believe? And what were they planning? Drawing on an
exclusive and wide range of sources who took part in or witnessed
Trump's closing moments, Michael Wolff finds the Oval Office more
chaotic and bizarre than ever before, a kind of Star Wars bar
scene. At all times of the day, Trump, hunched behind the Resolute
desk, is surrounded by schemers and unqualified sycophants who
spoon-feed him the 'alternative facts' he hungers to hear - about
COVID-19, Black Lives Matter protests, and, most of all, his chance
of winning re-election. In this extraordinary telling of a unique
moment in history, Wolff gives us front row seats as Trump's circle
of plotters whittles down to the most enabling and the least
qualified - and the president overreaches the bounds of democracy,
entertaining the idea of martial law and balking at calling off the
insurrectionist mob that threatens the hallowed seat of democracy
itself. Michael Wolff pulled back the curtain on the Trump
presidency with his globally bestselling blockbuster Fire and Fury.
Now, in Landslide, he closes the door on the presidency with a
final, astonishingly candid tale.
Wolff's book defends the Kantian idea of a "general logic" whose
principles underlie special systems of deductive logic. It thus
undermines "logical pluralism," which tolerates the co-existence of
divergent systems of modern logic without asking for consistent
common principles. Part I of Wolff’s book identifies the formal
language in which the most general principles of logic must be
expressed. This language turns out to be a version of syllogistic
language already used by Aristotle. The universal validity of
logical principles, as well as the translatability of other logical
languages into this language, are shown to depend only on the
meanings of its logical vocabulary. Part II of the book answers the
metalogical question concerning the deductive relation between
general logic and special logical systems, which also have their
own (less general) principles. This part identifies the rules
according to which logical rules can be derived from principles.
The main result of the book is that the highest principles of logic
and metalogics are provided by the syllogistic, when properly
understood.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SHOCKING NEW BOOK SHAKING US POLITICS: FIRE
AND FURY, INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITEHOUSE A riveting, barnstorming,
thrilling ride through the loud, lively and all-embracing world of
the modern media conglomerates - its key deals, dealmakers, divas
and delusions. The global media industry has never been more
powerful. And there is no more astute, forthright and entertaining
chronicler of this roller-coaster world than award-winning writer
Michael Wolff. In 'Autumn of the Moguls', a funny, frank, and
incendiary account that looks hard at the great characters of this
media age - from homes and gardens empress Martha Stewart to Disney
czar Michael Eisner - he has written the guide we all need to the
media, a world that is often more entertaining than what it
produces.
Originally published in two volumes, this work provides an
understanding of the urban past and present. With its many-sided
approach to the total phenomenon of the Victorian city, the work
encompasses not only what took place, but what people thought about
themselves as it happened. The books should appeal to a wide
general audience, including a range of scholars - historians,
literary and art historians, social scientists, and architects and
town planners. Its focus is particularly in the study of the social
and intellectual attitudes of Victorian society to the challenge of
urbanization.
Featuring work by the most distinguished pioneers in the fields of
urban history and Victorian studies, this set--originally published
in 1973 by Routledge Kegan and Paul--is acknowledged as the seminal
work on the urban past and present of the Victorian city. These
volumes are now available either as a set or individually:
"The Victorian City, Volume 1"
0-415-19323-0: $165.00/Y [Can. $247.50/Y]
"The Victorian City, Volume 2"
0-415-19324-9: $165.00/Y [Can. $247.50/Y]
Contents: Volume One Preface Acknowledgements I Past and Present 1. The Urbanizing World Eric E. Lampard 2. Voices from Within Paul Thompson II Numbers of People 3. The Human Aggregate Asa Briggs 4. The Contagion of Numbers J.A. Banks 5. Comers and Goers Raphael Samuel 6. Pubs Brian Harrison The Literature of the Streets Victor E. Neuburg 8. The Metropolis of the Stage Michael R. Booth III Shapes on the Ground 9. The Camera's Eye G.H. Martin and David Francis 10. The Face of the Industrial City G.F. Chadwick 11. Reading the Illegible Steven Marcus 12. The Power of the Railway Jack Simmons 13. London, the Artifact John Summerson 14. House upon House Donald J. Olson 15. Slums and Suburbs H.J. Dyos and D.A. Reeder IV A Change of Accent 16. Another Part of the Island G.F.A. Best 17. Metropolitan Types Lynn Lees Volume Two V Ideas in the Air 18. The Awful Sublimity of the Victorian City Nicholas Taylor 19. Victorian Artists and the Urban Mileu E.D.H. Johnson 20. The Frightened Poets G. Robert Strange 21. From 'Know-not-Where' to 'Nowhere' George Levine 22. The Novel between City and Country U.C. Knoepflmacher 23. Dickens and London Philip Collins 24. Pictures from the Magazines Michael Wolff and Celina Fox VI A Body of Troubles 25. Fact and Fiction in the East End P.J. Keating 26. Unfit for Human Habitation Anthony S. Wohl 27. Disease, Debility and Death George Rosen 28. Training Urban Man Richard L. Schoenwald 29. Prostitution and the Paterfamilias Eric Trudgill 30. The Culture of Poverty Gertrude Himmelfarb VII A New Earth 31. Literary Voices of an Industrial Town Martha Vicinus 32. Areas of Urban Politics Derek Fraser 33. Orange and Green Sybil E. Baker 34. Challenge to the Church David E. H. Mole 35. Catholic Faith of the Irish Slums Sheridan Gilley 36. Feelings and Festivals John Kent 37. The Way Out Stanley Pierson VIII Epilogue The Way We Live Now H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff Notes on Contributors Index
Since its first identification, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has
presented myriad challenges of diagnosis and classification. Our
understanding has evolved from a cluster of diagnostic categories
(Asperger's, Autism, and Pervasive Development Disorder) to the
current continuum of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Meanwhile, we have
progressed from debating the validity of the diagnosis, to
considering it a modern epidemic. This evolution has drawn
attention across a variety of fields, including the neurosciences,
education, forensics, and behavioral health. While new research
accumulates, there remains a lack of conceptual and practical
clarity about what ASD is, how specific diagnoses might be
delineated, and what we can do to understand and manage the
complexity of individuals on the Spectrum. In understanding ASD,
one size does not fit all-families, schools, and clinicians all
need a multi-faceted engagement with the specifics they encounter.
This text opens a critical dialogue through which students,
researchers, and clinicians can challenge their ideas about what it
means to work with the unique presentations of individuals on the
Spectrum. It provides education, clinical expertise, and
personalization to the lives influenced by the ever-changing
dynamics of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist
for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood
Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over a 20-year period,
the book spans that moment in popular culture when personal
attention became one of the world's most valuable commodities, and
ending with Donald Trump, fame's most hyperbolic exponent. Some of
these pieces exist in the amber of a particular news moment, some
as character portraits - as colourful now as when they were written
- and some as lasting observations about human nature and folly.
The common ground all of these thrilling stories share is that
everyone in this book is a creature of, or creation of, the media.
They don't exist as who we see them as, and who they want to be,
without the media.
Since its first identification, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has
presented myriad challenges of diagnosis and classification. Our
understanding has evolved from a cluster of diagnostic categories
(Asperger's, Autism, and Pervasive Development Disorder) to the
current continuum of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Meanwhile, we have
progressed from debating the validity of the diagnosis, to
considering it a modern epidemic. This evolution has drawn
attention across a variety of fields, including the neurosciences,
education, forensics, and behavioral health. While new research
accumulates, there remains a lack of conceptual and practical
clarity about what ASD is, how specific diagnoses might be
delineated, and what we can do to understand and manage the
complexity of individuals on the Spectrum. In understanding ASD,
one size does not fit all-families, schools, and clinicians all
need a multi-faceted engagement with the specifics they encounter.
This text opens a critical dialogue through which students,
researchers, and clinicians can challenge their ideas about what it
means to work with the unique presentations of individuals on the
Spectrum. It provides education, clinical expertise, and
personalization to the lives influenced by the ever-changing
dynamics of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Over a century after the death of Queen Victoria, historians are
busy re-appraising her age and achievements. However, our
understanding of the Victorian era is itself a part of history,
shaped by changing political, cultural and intellectual fashions.
From widespread reaction against Victorian values led by the
Bloomsbury set, through to the rehabilitation of Victorian
literature and architecture in the 1950s and 1960s, down to the
present enthusiasm for film and television adaptations of Charles
Dickens and George Eliot, our image of the Victorians has changed a
great deal. The Victorians since 1901 provides a much-needed survey
of these trends in modern historiography. Bringing together a group
of international scholars from the disciplines of history, English
literature, art history and cultural studies, it identifies and
assesses the principal influences on twentieth-century attitudes
towards the Victorians. Developments in academia, popular culture,
public history and the internet are covered in this important and
stimulating collection, and the final chapters anticipate future
global trends in interpretations of the Victorian era, making an
essential volume for students of Victorian Studies. -- .
Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury,
once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White
House under siege. Just one year into Donald Trump's term as
president, Michael Wolff told the electrifying story of a White
House consumed by controversy, chaos and intense rivalries. Fire
and Fury, an instant sensation, defined the first phase of the
Trump administration; now, in Siege, Wolff has written an equally
essential and explosive book about a presidency that is under fire
from almost every side. At the outset of Trump's second year as
president, his situation is profoundly different. No longer
tempered by experienced advisers, he is more impulsive and volatile
than ever. But the wheels of justice are inexorably turning: Robert
Mueller's 'witch hunt' haunts Trump every day, and other federal
prosecutors are taking a deep dive into his business affairs. Many
in the political establishment - even some members of his own
administration - have turned on him and are dedicated to bringing
him down. The Democrats see victory at the polls, and perhaps
impeachment, in front of them. Trump, meanwhile, is certain he is
invincible, making him all the more exposed and vulnerable. Week by
week, as Trump becomes increasingly erratic, the question that lies
at the heart of his tenure becomes ever more urgent: Will this most
abnormal of presidencies at last reach the breaking point and
implode? Both a riveting narrative and a brilliant front-lines
report, Siege provides an alarming and indelible portrait of a
president like no other. Surrounded by enemies and blind to his
peril, Trump is a raging, self-destructive inferno ? and the most
divisive leader in American history.
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