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pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 08:31 PM Jan 2018

Mike Allen at Axios: Author Wolff has dozens of hours of Trump book RECORDINGS.

https://www.axios.com/how-michael-wolff-did-it-2522360813.html

Michael Wolff has tapes to back up quotes in his incendiary book — dozens of hours of them.

Among the sources he taped, I'm told, are Steve Bannon and former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh.

So that's going to make it harder for officials to deny embarrassing or revealing quotes attributed to them in "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," out Tuesday.

In some cases, the officials thought they were talking off the record. But what are they going to do now?

SNIP

Some reporters and officials are calling the book sloppy, and challenging specific passages.

How could Wolff possibly know for sure what Steve Bannon and the late Roger Ailes said at a private dinner?
It turns out Wolff hosted the dinner for six at his Manhattan townhouse.
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Mike Allen at Axios: Author Wolff has dozens of hours of Trump book RECORDINGS. (Original Post) pnwmom Jan 2018 OP
How Forthoughtful Cha Jan 2018 #1
Sounds like something Red Don himself would say uponit7771 Jan 2018 #2
Man play a few on the morning shows... Historic NY Jan 2018 #3
That's what I want! pnwmom Jan 2018 #5
Figured as much. Too much detail in the book parts I have read. Sophia4 Jan 2018 #4
Yes, that's the right publisher and they are top notch. pnwmom Jan 2018 #6
 

Sophia4

(3,515 posts)
4. Figured as much. Too much detail in the book parts I have read.
Thu Jan 4, 2018, 08:40 PM
Jan 2018

No author would dare present that much detail with nothing to back it up. The editor/publisher would delete huge chunks of it.

The publisher is Henry Holt.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/publisher-henry-holt-rides-surge-of-interest-over-trump-book-1515096609

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Holt_and_Company

I could be wrong, but I believe this is it:

The company has published works by renowned authors Erich Fromm, Paul Auster, Hilary Mantel, Robert Frost, Hermann Hesse, Norman Mailer, Herta Müller, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ivan Turgenev and H. G. Wells.

From 1951 to 1985, Holt published the magazine Field & Stream.

Holt merged with Rinehart & Company of New York and the John C. Winston Company of Philadelphia in 1960 to become Holt, Rinehart and Winston. The Wall Street Journal reported on March 1 that Holt stockholders had approved the merger, last of the three approvals. "Henry Holt is the surviving concern, but will be known as Holt, Rinehart, Winston, Inc."[3]

CBS purchased the company in 1967. But in 1985 the group split, and the retail publishing arm along with the Holt name was sold to the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group based in Stuttgart, which has retained Holt as a subsidiary publishing under its original name and in the US it is part of Macmillan Publishers. The educational publishing arm, which retained the Holt, Rinehart and Winston name, was sold to Harcourt

It's a serious company if I have the right one.

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