Fire and Fury

Inside the Trump White House

By: Michael Wolff

Narrated by: Michael Wolff, Holter Graham

Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins

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.

©2018 Michael Wolff (P)2018 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

"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)

Make America Aware Again!

What made the experience of listening to Fire and Fury the most enjoyable?

The amount of effort DJT is putting into keeping this book out of the public's reach makes it that much more credible to me. The reporting is unpretentious and straightforward--thank you for making it available!

Chaos and Privilege

I listened to it in one day. Wow. First, great reader. Second, adds clarity to all the news stories. Three, the exactness of his retelling may be debated, but he makes sense of the Trump WH and early Presidency, something few have been able to do. I enjoyed it although still in a bit of disbelief.

This is like your favorite movie!

What did you love best about Fire and Fury?

This is like watching your favorite movie over and over and it just keeps getting better

What other book might you compare Fire and Fury to and why?

none

What does Michael Wolff and Holter Graham bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I bought audible copy so I could listen surreptitiously at work

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

about 100 times

Any additional comments?

Freaking amazing!!!

Not sure how true it all is.....

but this book sure does solidify my thoughts on our president and makes me sick.

Believable,

Where does Fire and Fury rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I couldn’t stop listening.

What other book might you compare Fire and Fury to and why?

None. It stands alone.

Have you listened to any of Michael Wolff and Holter Graham ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It meshes with news coverage of the White House and the West Wing, as well as events covered by national media. Even people who are reluctant to listen to this book will come away with a slightly different perspective on national events.

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.

Credible, interesting and a "must read."

I was concerned when I first heard of the book that it might read like a fictional account or pure gossip. However, I found the book credible, fast paced and very interesting. The prose was snappy and well organized. By the end of the book, I felt as though I had seen much truth inside a very distressed White House and I am grateful that this volume was published. I recommend it highly to everyone, regardless of political affiliation.

great book about our worst president

I wish that this book felt fake. However, from everything else I've read, this book seems true

this book is all we already knew about trump

if this book changed your opinion on Donald Trump, you're an idiot. everyone with an IQ above 3 saw the writing's on the wall long before he was even a candidate, I see tons of people in here that are saying they voted for him and this book changed their opinion. we all knew this is exactly what would come out of an Administration with him, and this book just helps prove exactly that. The book itself was great, narrated well, and told accurately! it's a shame while you're reading it you can't help but feel like you're reading some kind of Harry Potter novel, and then every now and then you have to remember that this is real life and America is a joke now. Overall Incredible Book

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