Donald trump books - pdf

A few weeks into the Trump administration, I overheard a friend who works in publishing remark, “Possibly the only good thing that will ever come of this is a bunch of tell-all memoirs that will be a lot juicier than the typical White House book.” That prediction, rather like a Trump campaign promise, has yet to be fulfilled.

Exposés of the dysfunctional inner workings of the Trump White House have reaped plenty of cash for the book business, but the best dish has mostly come from outsiders, journalists like Michael Wolff (2018’s Fire and Fury), Bob Woodward (2018’s Fear), and Washington Post reporters Carol D.

Leonnig and Philip Rucker (this year’s A Very Stable Genius). Books by former Trump staffers—of which John Bolton’s headline-making The Room Where It Happenedis the most recent—tend to be stunted, partial accounts, twisted like bonsai trees by the authors’ needs to make excuses, cover their tracks, and justify c