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Too Famous
Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious, the Damned | Michael Wolff
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If you can judge a book by its enemies, Too Famous could be an instant classic. Bestselling author of Fire and Fury and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media whores, and vainglorious figures of our time. His scalpel opens their lives, careers, and always equivocal endgames with the same vividness and wit he brought to his disemboweling of the former president. These brilliant and biting profiles form a mesmerizing portrait of the hubris, overreach, and nearly inevitable self-destruction of some of the most famous faces from the Clinton era through the Trump years. When the mighty fall, they do it with drama and with a dust cloud of gossip. This collection pulls from new and unpublished workrecent reporting about Tucker Carlson, Jared Kushner, Harvey Weinstein, Ronan Farrow, and Jeffrey Epsteinand twenty years of coverage of the most notable egomaniacs of the timeamong them, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, Rudy Giuliani, Arianna Huffington, Roger Ailes, Boris Johnson, and Rupert Murdochcreating a lasting statement on the corrosive influence of fame. Ultimately, this is an examination of how the quest for fame, notoriety, and power became the driving force of culture and politics, the drug that alters all public personalities. And how their need, their desperation, and their ruthlessness became the toxic grease that keeps the world spinning. You know the people here by name and reputation, but its guaranteed that after this book you will never see them the same way again or fail to recognize the scorched earth the famous leave behind them.
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Kappadeemom
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Light reading between cooking 😂😂 Actually there is nothing here that is surprising.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Have you read any of Freida McFadden‘s books? I think we are very similar in the books we enjoy ❤️ 1y
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Megabooks
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Mehso-so

Not quite the low blows I had feared, but it was obvious the author had an axe to grind in this gossipy book about the media (eg Tina Brown, Ronan Farrow) and politicians (eg Giuliani, Boris Johnson, Al Gore). Okay enough to finish but not one I‘d recommend. 3⭐️ #audiobook #BirthdayBash readathon

BarbaraBB You did finish it! 👍🏽 3y
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 3y
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Megabooks @TheAromaofBooks thanks!! I enjoyed the readathon! 3y
Cinfhen This book sounds mean spirited and I‘m NOT here for that / #Pass 3y
Megabooks @Cinfhen yeah, it definitely was. 3y
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Megabooks
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Tbh, I‘m not as excited for this #NewReleaseTuesday as other recent ones. This book had no holds on it, so I figured I‘d give it a shot. It looks at notorious political figures from the 90s to now. I guess whether I like it will depend on how many low blows there are. Those of you who know me well know that I‘m a pretty positive person, so I‘ll give it a couple of hours and 🤞🏻 that it‘s good.

Happy Tuesday y‘all!! 💜

BarbaraBB You definitely are a positive person! Happy Tuesday! I hope the book is good! 3y
Megabooks @BarbaraBB thanks dear friend!! You definitely know me well! 💜 3y
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