Too Famous

Collected journalism from the number-one bestselling author of FIRE AND FURY 'Wolff is brilliant at getting up close and personal with our New Elite' Irish Daily MailBestselling author of Fire and Fury and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff dissects the political monsters, media moguls and vainglorious figures of our time in this barbed, witty, revealing and entertaining collection. These brilliant profiles form a mesmerising portrait of the hubris and self-destruction of the most famous faces of the last twenty years including Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Rudy Giuliani, Alan Rusbridger, Piers Morgan, Boris Johnson and Rupert Murdoch. Too Famous examines how the quest for fame and power became the driving force in our culture and politics. You know the people here by name and reputation, but after reading this book you will never see them the same way again. Or fail to recognise the scorched earth the famous leave behind them. TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds several new ones. Written over a 20-year period, the book spans that moment in popular culture when personal attention became one of the world's most valuable commodities, and ending with Donald Trump, fame's most hyperbolic exponent.Some of these pieces exist in the amber of a particular news moment, some as character portraits - as colourful now as when they were written - and some as lasting observations about human nature and folly. The common ground all of these thrilling stories share is that everyone in this book is a creature of, or creation of, the media. They don't exist as who we see them as, and who they want to be, without the media.