The Best and the Brightest

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Ellen This book came up in Fire and Fury, the Michael Wolff book about the Administration that I am reading now. I can't say for sure who is giving Bannon g…moreThis book came up in Fire and Fury, the Michael Wolff book about the Administration that I am reading now. I can't say for sure who is giving Bannon grief for reading it, but by Wolff's account, Bannon considered it either a how-to manual for government or an indictment of ALL bureaucracy and establishment politics. (I don't think was the spirit in which Halberstam intended his account, but I haven't read it yet so I couldn't say for sure. My impression is that it's a more specific critique than that.) (less)

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