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    Michael Hiltzik: I knew everything in Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' even before it was published. Here's how

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Jan 08, 2018 6 minutes

    The publishing sensation of this young year is Michael Wolff's inside-the-West-Wing tell-all, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."

    Within days of its publication date, which was moved up by several days to meet frenzied demand, the book was sold out at stores; it dominated the Sunday cable talk shows; provoked President Donald Trump and his minions to a string of furious attacks; and has the official chroniclers of White House dysfunction at big East Coast newspapers crabbing about trivial inaccuracies (a sure sign that it has struck a nerve).

    "Fire and Fury" was destined for success for several reasons. It fits the prevailing narrative about the Trump administration as perfectly as the last piece fits a jigsaw puzzle. It goes down easy, slathered over with the moist lubricant of gossip. It's not too heavily freighted with serious stuff like policy, and what's there is given a once-over-lightly treatment that affords readers the sensation of knowing just enough about that stuff for dinner-party conversation.

    But having spent

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