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Beyond Fire and Fury: Trump as American as Apple Pie?

Beyond Fire and Fury: Trump as American as Apple Pie? Maybe time to appreciate the dish -- / -- Introduction Trump as American as apple pie? Mental capacity of effective instigators of social change? Unconscious civilization and "reality distortion"? References Produced on the occasion of the response to the critical commentary of  Michael Wolff ( Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House , 2018;  Donald Trump Didn't Want to Be President ,  New York Magazine , 3 January 2018) Introduction This is an effort to draw together a variety of threads relating to personal and collective exposure to the Trump phenomenon. This seems appropriate at a time when many are relishing the vulnerability of Trump to the final consequences of his idiosyncratic behaviour and declarations (Abigail Tracy,  Trump's "Fire and Fury" Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse: the White House is racing to contain the damage .  Vanity Fair , 4 January 2018; Quentin Fottrell,  '