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After Fire and Fury: five new books on Trump range from objective to subjective to satire

Michael Wolff’s Trump book topped the Amazon chart and The New York Times bestseller list. A number of authors are putting out their own books on the president. Here are five, from Trump supporters, haters and scholars

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Randall Hansen, author of Fire and Fury: the Allied Bombing of Germany has been delighted to see his 2009 title hit the bestseller list. Some hapless readers, unable to find Trump’s name anywhere inside, are less delighted.

This mix-up is one of the unforeseen results of Michael Wolff ’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, a 336-page flame of the president. The book, decorated with Trump’s signature off-kilter grimace, leapt to number one on Amazon, iBooks and The New York Times bestseller list. Ahead of publication, Trump’s team issued a cease-and-desist letter to Wolff and Henry Holt, his publisher.

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Holt moved up the launch by four days citing “unprecedented demand” of over a million pre-orders, but they were understandably keen to pre-empt legal action.

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Another unexpected result of Wolff’s fiery and furious oh-no-you-didn’t rant-all is a pronounced sales bump for Trump-related literature. Here’s a look at what’s coming soon, from the political to the personal, the rabidly anti to the cultishly devoted, the scholarly to the profane.

It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston.
It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America by David Cay Johnston.
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It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America

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