On 3/5/18, Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Bonnie,
I heard that I was losing it, but who listens to all those voices in
the head? Anyway, I swore I read "Richard Wolfe", and thought it was
Wolff, whose opinions I agree mostly with, despite his somewhat
affected manner. But your pitch for Michael Wolfe has caused me to
put his book on my lengthy short list. The beauty of BARD is that it
costs nothing to browse a book, and if it's not to my liking...zap!
Which causes me to wonder what will become of those time honored book
burnings? Will it be easier to purge eBooks? Certainly there will be
no ashes to clean up. But whatever, my advice is to hide any history
books that you value, since our "New, Better Than Ever, Honest and
True" history is already being written. The president has appointed a
task force to research all history books, and compile the "Real" story
of our rise to greatness. It's headed up by co-chair Bugsy Malone and
Val Kosloff. Bugsy's credentials include the handling of thousands of
books during his years as "Book Sorter" at the Chicago Good Will. Val
Kosloff's credentials are still being sought. Moscow is notoriously
slow in forwarding information.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/5/18, Lisa Belville <missktlab1217@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, Carl and all.
Actually, it is up on BARD and Bookshare and Audible and probably all
book sources on the planet. <grin> The author's first name is
Michael, though.
I read this and while it was fascinating in a watching a really bad car
wreck way, it wasn't as substantive as I like. He's also backed off
some of the claims he implied about Trump's alleged affairs with someone
very high up in the administration. Apparently Stormy Daniels wasn't on
the radar when this book was being written.
Here's the BARD info.
Fire and fury: inside the Trump White House DB89802
Wolff, Michael. Reading time: 11 hours, 57 minutes.
Read by Holter Graham.
Government and Politics
U.S. History
Journalist examines the first nine months of President Trump's
administration. Discusses, among other things, the staff's opinions of
Trump, the reasons for FBI director James Comey's firing, the story
behind Trump's claims of being wire-tapped by President Obama, and the
state of White House strategies following Steve Bannon's departure.
Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.
Download Fire and fury: inside the Trump White House
Lisa Belville
missktlab1217@xxxxxxxxxxxx
On 3/4/2018 7:23 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
Bonnie,
The name Richard Wolf caught my eye and I saved your post so I could
check and see if the book were on BARD. Then I discovered it was not
Richard D. Wolff, the economist and professor. But I'll tuck it in
along with books on Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan Herbert Hoover, Barry
Goldwater, and other books I may never get around to.
.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/2/18, Bonnie L. Sherrell <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
_Fire and Fury_
Richard Wolfe
Gossip writer Richard Wolfe had heard that Donald Trump was markedly
susceptible
to praise offered early in a relationship with him, so he used this
coin
extravagantly early on, commented on how much he'd love to write a book
on
what
would undoubtedly be Trump's triumphant first hundred days in office,
and
found
himself in like Flynn. He was allowed to come and go through the White
House
basically as he pleased, and was able to talk with everyone in Trump's
immediate
orbit, most of whom were all too willing to dish out the dirt on their
erratic
boss and one another.
Trump's administration proved leaky to the press? What can one expect
when
almost everyone high in the administration is purposely talking to the
media
in
hopes of embarrassing rivals and pumping up their own importance?
Among
those
most likely to be feeding the news outlets were Jared Kushner and
Ivanka,
as
first son-in-law and daughter, Steve Bannon, and Donald Trump himself.
Trump
has always had an impossibly high opinion of his own importance, and
was
furious
that the mainstream media failed to recognize his brilliance, more
easily
seeing
and reporting on his mistakes and the results of his poor judgment.
So,
he
began labeling what they reported as "fake news" while inexplicably
courting
outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, and the New York
Times,
attempting desperately to get some word of praise from any of these
news
outlets.
If the book reads like backstairs gossip, well, that's exactly what it
is.
Bannon especially found himself appreciating Wolfe's availability to
serve
as a
father confessor, and Wolfe found himself invited to the various
parties
and
functions Bannon enjoyed, thus being right there to see the maneuvering
and
plots take shape.
It's definitely not a pretty picture of the Trump presidency, but then
Trump
himself is not a particularly admirable guy. He'd never imagined he'd
win,
so
he wasn't anywhere near ready to make his transition into the Oval
Office.
His
personal intentions were to lose, start his own news channel called
Trump
TV,
and use it as a means of attacking everyone he felt was not nice to
him,
and
particularly for making Hillary Clinton's life as miserable as
possible.
This book isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it certainly gives one the
flavor
of
what it's like to be within Trump's White House and why it is that it
is
as
chaotic and disfunctional as it has proved. Had anyone within Trump's
administration actually read any other book Wolfe has written, I'm
certain
he'd
have never been allowed to set foot inside the White House. But with
Trump
himself functionally illiterate and everyone else too self-absorbed to
pay
attention, they let the wolf inside the door and cannot bewail too
strongly
how
they'd apparently been taken in by him.
Available in every medium imaginable. I got the e-book formula and
read
it
on
my NOOK.
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the
very
wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
We gave the Goblin King control of our nation!