Too Famous, Michael Wolff
Too Famous, Michael Wolff
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Too Famous
The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious, the Damned

Author: Michael Wolff

Narrator: Holter Graham

Unabridged: 12 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/19/2021


Synopsis

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

If you can judge an audiobook 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This collection pulls from new and unpublished work—recent reporting about Tucker Carlson, Jared Kushner, Harvey Weinstein, Ronan Farrow, and Jeffrey Epstein—and twenty years of coverage of the most notable egomaniacs of the time—among them, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, Rudy Giuliani, Arianna Huffington, Roger Ailes, Boris Johnson, and Rupert Murdoch—creating 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 it’s guaranteed that after this audiobook you will never see them the same way again or fail to recognize the scorched earth the famous leave behind them.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

About Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff is the author of the bestselling, authoritative trilogy about the Trump White House: Fire and Fury, Siege, and Landslide. His other books include the seminal biography of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News. A two-time winner of the National Magazine Awards, he has been a columnist for New York magazine, Vanity Fair, British GQ, the Hollywood Reporter, and the Guardian. He lives in New York City with his family.

About Holter Graham

Holter Graham, winner of AudioFile’s 2008 Best Voice in Science Fiction & Fantasy for Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Acheron, is a stage, television, and screen actor. He has recorded numerous audiobooks, including much of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s bestselling Dark-Hunter series. The winner of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he has also read works by Scott Turow, Dean Koontz, C. J. Box, and Stephen Frey.  His film credits include Fly Away Home, Maximum Overdrive, Hairspray, and The Diversion, a short film which he acted in and produced. On television, he has appeared in Army Wives, Damages, As The World Turns, Rescue Me, Law & Order and New York Undercover. He received a B.A. from Skidmore College and an M.F.A. from Vermont College.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kirsti on November 26, 2021

Mostly reprints, a three-star book for me overall. Some of these pieces are 20 years old. But I'm giving an extra star for the final piece in the collection, which is an astonishing account of the daily life and attempts at damage control of Jeffrey Epstein shortly before his second arrest. The weal......more

Goodreads review by Socraticgadfly on October 19, 2022

Really 3.5 stars or so, per my more detailed review here . Bumped up to 4 because I think several of the low-star reviewers had it too low for the wrong reasons, so a half-star bump upward.......more

Goodreads review by Patricia on December 03, 2023

Much less interesting than I expected.......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on November 08, 2021

Witty and cruel and funny......more

Goodreads review by Chris on December 15, 2021

In which Wolff enjoys gossiping about celebrities from the political world. Although he claims in the introduction that his goal is to explore celebrity seekers, to understand why they fly like moths to the flame of public attention, the book is really mostly reprints about political celebrities tha......more