Books today

When Al Gore wrote his book about the environment called an Inconvenient Truth he admitted that he exaggerated saying it was necessary to get peoples attention. This is a common practice now days to get publicity and it pays off. More recently Michael Wolff the author of the anti-Trump book called Fire and Fury followed this marketing practice. The White House challenged the facts in the book as did others. Here is the NY Times review. New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, and several other journalists and Washington insiders, do as well. "I believe parts of it, and then there are other parts that are factually wrong," Haberman said Friday on CNN. "He believes in larger truths and narratives. So he creates a narrative that is notionally true, that's conceptually true. The details are often wrong." By the time the book was discredited Wolff had made $7 million