![]() ![]() The Trump Presidency has had some very interesting events that will bear further scrutiny for future presidential historians. This may be completely fair or Wolff may be serving as the James Callender to those of a different ideology. But what is clear is that his follow up to his earlier book about the Trump Presidency, Fire and Fury, is disappointing in that it sacrifices a historical chronicling of some of the most interesting issues confronting the current administration, opting instead for salacious gossip that paints a picture of a president completely devoid of any redeeming qualities or intelligence whatsoever. Michael Wolff's recent book Siege: Trump Under Fire may be more fact than fiction, or it may be the reverse. Things haven't gotten much better since, and it is virtually impossible for readers to know how much of any contemporary historical accounts of the current presidency are fact and how much are polarized spin. ![]() Writing about incumbent Presidents has always been a polarizing subject, since the times when the rabidly partisan editor James Callender maligned George Washington, claiming that the first President had "debauched and deceived" the nation by self-promotion. ![]()
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