With ‘Fire and Fury,’ Stephen Rubin Is Publishing’s 76-Year-Old Comeback Kid
Within days, the book was a sensation, and Mr. Wolff was an in-demand media star, appearing on such shows as
“Meet the Press,” “CBS This Morning,” “PBS NewsHour,” “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and “The View.”
But all the publicity was not positive.
Several critics pointed out some glaring factual errors, others reminded readers
that Mr. Wolff’s book on Mr. Murdoch also had some missteps and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said the book was filled with “mistake after mistake after mistake.”
Later, there was a dust-up when Mr. Wolff seemed to imply on “Real Time With Bill Maher”
that there were rumors of an affair between Mr. Trump and Nikki R. Haley, his ambassador to the United Nations, that he was unable to substantiate enough to include in his book.
And I was just luxuriating in the pleasure of reading it.”
But Mr. Rubin now finds himself with a book that has arguably matched the heights of “The Da Vinci Code” and “The Firm.”
“This is a pretty remarkable time in his career, if not the most remarkable,” said Jane Friedman,
the former chief executive of HarperCollins and a longtime friend of Mr. Rubin’s.
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