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Leonard Pitts: ‘Fire and Fury’ is the book we got, not the one we needed

That’s why “Fire and Fury,” by journalist Michael Wolff, which purported to be a fly-on-the-wall, inside view of life in the Trump White House, shot to No. 1 on Amazon.com last week after Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to suppress it. It’s why bookstores had to back order.

Unfortunately, Wolff did not deliver the book he promised. Granted, “Fire and Fury” is juicy as a summer peach, filled with gossipy takedowns of pretty much every boldface name in Trump Land. Anthony Scaramucci emerges as “a shameless self-promoter,” Kellyanne Conway, as an antagonistic drama queen addicted to cable news cameras.