--- title: Another Fire and Fury Author is Seeing Book Sales Jump description: The author of a lesser-known 'Fire and Fury' book has been surprised to see a readership spike in the wake of Michael Wolff's book canonical: https://time.com/5098171/fire-and-fury-randall-hansen-book-michael-wolff/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-11T00:50:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T08:45:30.705Z article:section: Politics og:title: People Are Buying the Wrong ‘Fire and Fury’ Book og:description: A professor in Canada has seen sales of his book jump this week og:url: https://time.com/5098171/fire-and-fury-randall-hansen-book-michael-wolff/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ab41a87b04a4d7d/6988f7eadb2987db9025e5e5/fire-and-fury-michael-wolff-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5312 og:image:height: 2988 og:image:alt: 500 Copies Of Hotly Anticipated Trump Book Arrive At Waterstones og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: People Are Buying the Wrong ‘Fire and Fury’ Book twitter:description: A professor in Canada has seen sales of his book jump this week twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5ab41a87b04a4d7d/6988f7eadb2987db9025e5e5/fire-and-fury-michael-wolff-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # People Are Buying the Wrong _Fire and Fury_ Book and This Author Is Making Money > Sponsored content. 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It explains the politics, personalities and power dynamics behind the headlines, twice a week. #### Where can I get analysis of Washington politics by email? D.C. Brief is TIME's free Washington politics newsletter, available at time.com/newsletters. It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3/newsletters?i=29e5ed21-788f-4dd4-a753-109c5ebd83af&cr=time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Michael Wolff on "Fire and Fury" [Watch (HLS stream): Michael Wolff on "Fire and Fury"](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/x6FmR1D6.m3u8) (3:00)  _Published 2018-01-09. Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury has become the defining book of the year-old Trump administration._  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jan 11, 2018 12:50 AM UTC Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury has become the defining book of the year-old Trump administration.  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jan 11, 2018 12:50 AM UTC For more than a week, the nation’s capital has been [consumed by _Fire and Fury_](http://time.com/5094085/fire-and-fury-michael-wolff-interview/) — the explosive new book about the Trump Administration written by [Michael Wolff](http://time.com/5094085/fire-and-fury-michael-wolff-interview/) that now [tops the New York _Times_ bestseller list](https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/951217011614453760?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref%5Furl=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fblog-briefing-room%2F368398-fire-and-fury-debuts-at-1-on-new-york-times-bestseller-list). Meanwhile in Canada, the author of a lesser-known book with the same title has been pleasantly surprised to see a readership spike of his own. Randall Hansen, interim director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, said sales for his 2009 book —[ _Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945_](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451230086/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0451230086&linkId=f798cc998d0dcfec52462dd7a0fc718a) — jumped in the past week. His book focuses on the bombing tactics that killed hundreds of thousands of German civilians during World War II, while Wolff’s book chronicles [turmoil](http://time.com/5087823/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-donald-trump-white-house/) within Donald Trump’s White House. “Will I owe a larger royalty cheque to Bannon & Trump? If so, the irony will know no limits,” Hansen [tweeted](https://twitter.com/ProfRAHansen/status/949510305612271616) the day after Wolff’s book was released. Some of Hansen’s new readers might have purchased his book intentionally after stumbling upon it while searching for Wolff’s, but at least a few reviewers on Amazon voiced frustration that the book they purchased was not what they had expected. “I DON’T SEE ANYTHING ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP! I DON’T KNOW WHY THE DEMOCRATS ARE SO HAPPY WITH THIS BOOK AND MAKEINIG A BIG DEAL OF THIS !” one person wrote. “I love Trump, so I bought this book to spite Wolf,” said another. A third directed confused customers to the page where they could buy Wolff’s book. “If a few more people read my book now and reflect on the horrific consequences of war to civilian populations,” Hansen [told the Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/10/some-people-are-buying-the-wrong-fire-and-fury-book-its-canadian-author-isnt-complaining/?utm%5Fterm=.b70c90a9a5a8), “I think that would be a very good outcome.” ## Transcript Since Donald Trump is the main character in all of our lives, it turns out that most everyone is interested in this story. They may actually not be interested in any other stories. This is it. This takes all of the air out of the room. It's not implausible that Donald Trump could have been a A successful president. I felt genuinely at the start of this administration, that the press had made up its mind. And I had not, I had no idea what I would find, literally no idea. I'm just the guy there who's Goes in and is looking, and listening, and trying to write this down. This is not about my opinion of Donald Trump. This is about the opinion of the people around him, the people closest to him, the people who have to run the country's business. This is a White House where everybody is speaking constantly to To reporters, to anybody who will listen, they have a need to talk, they have a need to understand, I think, what they themselves are doing. What are they doing there? In the way I came to admire the people in the White House, and that's a funny kind of thing because on one hand I might also think, They shouldn't be there. They should look at this and then they should say this is bad, I'm not gonna support this and I'm gonna get out of there. But on the other hand, I saw a lot of these people come to the conclusion they're important now. They are the bull work between this guy Who they think can't do this job and getting the job done or at least, dare I say, protecting the country from the man they work for. I have said from the beginning. I've spent approximately three hours with With Trump since the campaigns of June 2016 through till now I; m completely comfortable with my familiarity with Donald Trump a president of the United States cannot restrain anything from publication. So I don't have any fear of this. At the same time, this is the President of the United States. I mean there is some reality there. The most powerful person in the country has focused on me, in this case. And you think, okay, this is Kind of preposterous, but is it? 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