Landslide should be an engrossing, exciting recount of Trump’s last days in office. The research is there. The main characters are waiting to play their roles. But I found this book incredibly frustrating because of the author’s penchant for paragraph long sentences full of parentheses, colons and other more obscure punctuation. This, with the authors use of odd words for example “heretofore”,(Why not just say before ) caused me to have to reread large segments to get the meaning. I am still pondering what are “with-him-or-against-him silos”.
As a non American, I quite accept the fact that I will not get all references and have to do some personal research, for example Wolf’s reference to “ K Street “ in relation to billionaire Koch brothers. But unnecessary personal details such as Ike Perlmutter who was a neighbour AND a Mar-a-Largo neighbour AND a show biz billionaire who sold bankrupt Marvel comics for $4 billion is just too much detail for a guy who is mentioned once- even if in a six line, single sentence paragraph.
The book never had a chance to build to it’s exciting climax because I was always being pulled back by the style of writing. This maybe a great retelling for those familiar with the people and events but it did not live up to my expectations for a readable explanation of an amazing time.

Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
Audible Audiobook
– Unabridged
Amazon Price | New from | Used from |
Audible Audiobook, Unabridged
"Please retry" |
$0.00
| Free with your Audible trial |
Audio CD, CD, Unabridged
"Please retry" | $48.60 | — |
New York Times best-selling author of Fire and Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the epic presidency of Donald J. Trump.
With Fire and Fury, Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege, he wrote an explosive account of a presidency under fire. In Landslide, Wolff closes the story of Trump's four years in office and his tumultuous last months at the helm of the country, based on Wolff's extraordinary access to White House aides and to the former president himself, yielding a wealth of new information and insights about what really happened inside the highest office in the land, and the world.
©2021 Michael Wolff (P)2021 Hachette Audio
- Listening Length11 hours and 11 minutes
- Audible release date13 July 2021
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB097C63PCF
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
- Get this audiobook free then 1 credit each month, good for any title you like - yours to keep, even if you cancel
- Listen all you want to the Plus Catalogue—a selection of thousands of Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts, including exclusive series
- Exclusive member-only deals
- $16.45 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s
Conditions Of Use
and
Privacy Notice.
Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company
People who viewed this also viewed
Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1
- Audible Audiobook
- Audible Audiobook
- Audible Audiobook
- Audible Audiobook
- Audible Audiobook
Product details
Listening Length | 11 hours and 11 minutes |
---|---|
Author | Michael Wolff |
Narrator | Holter Graham |
Audible.com.au Release Date | 13 July 2021 |
Publisher | Hachette Audio UK |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B097C63PCF |
Best Sellers Rank | 7,739 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 15 in Biographies of U.S. Presidents 20 in U.S. Government 20 in 21st Century U.S. History |
Customer reviews
4.3 out of 5 stars
4.3 out of 5
5,664 global ratings
How are ratings calculated?
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Top reviews
Top reviews from Australia
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
Reviewed in Australia on 21 July 2021
Report abuse
Verified Purchase
2 people found this helpful
Helpful
Reviewed in Australia on 17 July 2021
Verified Purchase
... and they let Wolff back in. It's a roller coaster of a book because it makes your guts churn. I couldn't read it in one hit because it was so intense and bonkers.
The universe dodged a bullet; this is the story of that bullet.
The universe dodged a bullet; this is the story of that bullet.
One person found this helpful
Report abuse
Reviewed in Australia on 28 September 2021
Verified Purchase
Wolff’s book on the final days off the Trump administration (or what was left of it) is fascinating, absorbing and laughable, if it weren’t true. Trump truly has no grip on reality and the people around him fed his fantasy and still do by all accounts. An interesting question is how Wolff gets his access to the intimate detail. That’s a story in itself. Well worth a read. My only quibble is Wolff’s writing - sometimes it’s so convoluted that you have to read a sentence two or three times to figure out where he’s heading. He loves the qualifying phrases!
Reviewed in Australia on 21 July 2021
Verified Purchase
Amazing insight into the delusions of the leader of the free world in his last few weeks of power. Truth really is stranger than fiction.
Reviewed in Australia on 23 July 2021
Verified Purchase
Another great work by MW. How on this precious earth, despite global warming, any intelligent voter could contemplate another four years of a president of the USA like what has occurred in the last four years, is beyond belief, let alone realty of a sane mind. Thank God for the Westminster System of country governance applicable in more rational States, where the votes of the intelligent provide a more stable, if not always, happy, result.
Top reviews from other countries

enthusiast
3.0 out of 5 stars
annoying style
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2021Verified Purchase
'Or, as Trump aides, as confounded as any by the Oval Office crowds, ado, and unlikely characters, often put it, the Star Wars bar scene.' p10. There are many more examples at least as bad.
Try this p167 (just to prove I have read that far.) 'But curiously,the very fact that the Trump gambit was not going to succeed, that the election challenge had failed to advance and that all the checks against it had become only more formidable - and now, with the second-most-important person in the Republican partry and the most powerful Republican on the Hill standing against it - only made it easier to support.'
Woolff's style is so in need of a good editor. The above sentence is typical of the book, and grates. There are insights but it could have been so much more readable. Reads as though when a sentence wasn't coming together he stuck in some punctuation, rather than revise. This book was about making money for author and publisher - not about enlightenment. Rushed to get in the market early, and it shows.
Try this p167 (just to prove I have read that far.) 'But curiously,the very fact that the Trump gambit was not going to succeed, that the election challenge had failed to advance and that all the checks against it had become only more formidable - and now, with the second-most-important person in the Republican partry and the most powerful Republican on the Hill standing against it - only made it easier to support.'
Woolff's style is so in need of a good editor. The above sentence is typical of the book, and grates. There are insights but it could have been so much more readable. Reads as though when a sentence wasn't coming together he stuck in some punctuation, rather than revise. This book was about making money for author and publisher - not about enlightenment. Rushed to get in the market early, and it shows.
43 people found this helpful
Report abuse

A. Carson
3.0 out of 5 stars
good enough but irritating writing style
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 July 2021Verified Purchase
i agree with a previous reviewer. interesting content, poorly delivered. it really needs a decent, and, indeed, it must be said, without doubt - all things taken into consideration and with the benefit of having read it, although i can imagine that others may differ - a rigorous proof reader to go over it and redraft, making the changes that the initial drafting should have made, had it been properly proofed...
...that exemplifies the sort of style this book is written in....irritating.
...that exemplifies the sort of style this book is written in....irritating.
20 people found this helpful
Report abuse

Basil
4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting at start but left me with a feeling of emptiness by the end
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 July 2021Verified Purchase
Interesting to read lots of juicy bits of gossip about the final Trump campaign. However, many of them had been revealed in the pre-publication publicity, so the impact was reduced. I was still glued to the page for most of the book, but curiously I could not wade through the verbatim quotes of Trump speaking. His stream-of-consciousness verbiage is interesting - for the first minute or so, but then becomes really boring. It makes me wonder why his adoring fanbase can listen to his rambling monologues that last hours. Then at the end of the book, I realised that the author had to befriend Trump in order to get material for his book. So did the authors of the other 2 Trump books coming out now. It dawned on me that these authors have a weird symbiotic relationship with Trump. They lambast him for his terrible actions, but they are making money off it. They could have gone in harder on Trump. I'd like to have seen interviews, not just with Trump insiders, but with Trump victims, e.g. intimidated election officials and Capitol Hil police officers, to show the real harm Trump and Trumpism and why it needs to be decisively defeated.
9 people found this helpful
Report abuse

Norman Housley
5.0 out of 5 stars
Addictive and astonishing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2021Verified Purchase
This book is the very definition of unputdownable. Writing and production alike were rushed and it shows. Lots of technical stuff is simply taken as read and the huge list of characters can be baffling. But these are minor quibbles. Wolff provides a rollercoaster ride through the utter mayhem of November-January. He highlights the eccentricity of Trump’s worldview, the freak show of his entourage and the enigma of his seemingly invincible popularity. The ending cannot help but leave the reader gloomy about the future of US democracy, which the Trump phenomenon has shown to be deeply vulnerable.
9 people found this helpful
Report abuse

Kingsley Flint
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unputdownable exciting account of a monster’s downfall
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2021Verified Purchase
How incredible that an autocratic, mentally deranged and very dangerous person could aspire to the title of the most powerful man in the World. In modern times so many have forgotten the Second World War and how it came about. Michael Wolf gives an at once entertaining and alarming intimate picture of the ending of Trump’s presidency and the birth, perhaps largely due to Rudolph Giuliani, of the stolen election myth disaster now threatening the very roots of western democracy. The very fact that the book is so compelling and entertaining illustrates the danger of the Trump phenomenon, and also all the other autocratic governments and tendencies all over the globe. The human race has hypnotised itself through television and democracy has been corrupted by social media and it is this aspect of 'entertainment’ that has us all transfixed like frightened or unconscious rabbits in the oncoming headlights of global disaster
5 people found this helpful
Report abuse