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Landslide

The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

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New York Times best-selling author of Fire and Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the epic presidency of Donald J. Trump.

With Fire and Fury, Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege, he wrote an explosive account of a presidency under fire. In Landslide, Wolff closes the story of Trump's four years in office and his tumultuous last months at the helm of the country, based on Wolff's extraordinary access to White House aides and to the former president himself, yielding a wealth of new information and insights about what really happened inside the highest office in the land, and the world.

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A true guilty treat of a listen, with a sensational read by Holter Graham. While much of the material is broadly familiar to your average US political junkie, it’s the mind-boggling detail and in-the-room vibe that lifts this account. And the whole Impeachment 2 saga is a priceless piece of comic writing. I also appreciate that Wolff is so resolutely not po-faced - he’s having faaaaar too much fun to start wringing his hands. I mean yes Trump is palpably mad, but he’s also fathomlessly entertaining. Still - please don’t elect him again!

Perfect match of author and narrator

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The most worrying part of this book was in one of the interspersed audio clips of Trump speaking (and that’s a great technical trick which enhances the listening experience), when he’s laying out a litany of electoral offences and actually sounds coherent and reasoned. There is no fact check following to dismember the allegations - which have been thoroughly debunked elsewhere. I found that a jarring omission, strange in a book the central tenet of which seems to be that Trump was so out of his depth that he couldn’t possibly have intended for the events of January 6th.

Overall the book is great. It is slightly repetitive, emphasising (often times without necessarily providing any quotations or sense that the view taken is based on conversations with players in the political drama) the unreality of the idea that Trump could get the election overturned. In that sense, while it carpets Republicans for toadying to Trump, it also lets them off the hook, because it was all just theatre, none of it meant anything, “go back to bed America, your government is in control again.” But this doesn’t detract from some of the most powerful elements, like the black comedy of narrating the voices of those who stormed the Capitol, or the absolutely surreal conversations between Trump’s legal people in “Impeachment II: If at first you don’t succeed.”

In general I think book lacks the depth and verve of the two Woodward books on Trump, and based on this I probably wouldn’t get the other two books by Wolff, but Woodward didn’t cover this period and given the lacuna in decent long form journalism, I recommend this book.

Interesting but punches only land intermittently

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brilliantly informative. an important part of the history of the truth of Trump. a well-informed and referenced piece of history. the narrator was absolutely superb. his is exactly the right voice and style to deliver this narrative. First class performance

excellent

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Always amazes me that this clown got in twice, shame on America for forcing this clown on us yet again

A good listen

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All of it. Fascinating insight into Trumps white-house here, This is a really interesting book, which I’d recommend.

The chaos

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