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Too Famous
- The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Damned, the Notorious - Twenty Years of Columns, Essays and Reporting
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Barbed, witty, revealing and entertaining, Too Famous could be an instant classic.
Best-selling author of Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media moguls 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 evisceration of the former president. These brilliant and biting profiles form a mesmerising portrait of the hubris, overreach and periodic self-destruction of some of the most famous faces of the last 20 years.
This collection draws on new and unpublished work - recent reporting about Jared Kushner, Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein - and decades of coverage of the most notable figures of the time - among them Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, Rudy Giuliani, Alan Rusbridger, Arianna Huffington, Piers Morgan, Boris Johnson and Rupert Murdoch - to create a lasting statement on the corrosive influence of being in the public eye.
Ultimately, Too Famous is an examination of how the quest for fame and power became the driving force of culture and politics and the drug that alters all public personalities. And how the need, the desperation, the ruthlessness demanded to fulfil that quest became the toxic grease that keeps the world spinning. You know the people here by name and reputation, but it's guaranteed that after this book you will never see them the same way again. Or fail to recognise the scorched earth the famous leave behind them.
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- Alexis
- 02-04-22
not everyones cup of tea....
I grant you but I do enjoy Michael Wolffs style of writing - humourous and incisive. Not sure about the reviewer who says its 97% Trump - perhaps they didnt listen to the rest or they just were not interested in Johnson/Epstein/Gore etc. I am not American so some of the people I did not know - Bloomberg, Weiner so I found those chapters quite fascinating and very amusing.
It does highlight 'twenty years of columns and essays' (witness the year at the beginning of the chapters) and give a journalists view. Some of the essays/chapters he was there for (Gore) and some patently not (Epstein). But it is quite well known that Steve Banner is incredibly gobby and talks to most people so I understand that part would be pretty first hand, I actually like the narrator Holter Graham. I know he is a bit hit and miss and you either like him or not. Having listened to the other Wolff books narrated by him I knew what I was in for and fall into the like it category. I also like that Wolff writes about serious matters but does not appear to take himself that seriously. To be honest - its a bit Marmite both in style and content
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- Peter F.
- 02-11-21
Disappointing
Probably a good book to read but let down by monotone narration and varied volume levels when audio clips played within. I managed 10 minutes before being so wound up that I switched it off. Sorry but I can't recommend this at all :-(
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- ARTYMUIR
- 29-01-22
the author acts as us he is in the room. he is not
I would reference the sustain he brings to other journalist and power. this is fabel and whilst may wish it to he true. he is making it up. n to liberal with his license to be truthful
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- Laura Lee Murray
- 14-01-22
Avoid and don't waste your money on this book!
This book is nothing what the title says at all.
The whole book is 97% Trump same old same old story that we have heard repeatedly in every book that is out so far. The rest is about his son in law. That is the whole book with absolutely nothing about anyone else at all.
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