Team of Vipers - Cliff Sims

Team of Vipers

By Cliff Sims

  • Release Date: 2019-01-29
  • Genre: Political Science
Score: 3
3
From 134 Ratings

Description

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Sims’s vivid portrait of Trump shrewdly balances admiration with misgivings, and his intricate, engrossing accounts of White House vendettas and power plays have a good mix of immersion and perspective. The result is one of the best of the recent flood of Trump tell-alls." —Publishers Weekly

The first honest insider’s account of the Trump administration. If you hate Trump you need the truth; if you love Trump you need the truth.

After standing at Donald Trump’s side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy.

He soon found himself pulled into the President’s inner circle as a confidante, an errand boy, an advisor, a punching bag, and a friend. Sometimes all in the same conversation.

As a result, Sims gained unprecedented access to the President, sitting in on private meetings with key Congressional officials, world leaders, and top White House advisors. He saw how Trump handled the challenges of the office, and he learned from Trump himself how he saw the world.

For five hundred days, Sims also witnessed first-hand the infighting and leaking, the anger, joy, and recriminations. He had a role in some of the President’s biggest successes, and he shared the blame for some of his administration’s worst disasters. He gained key, often surprising insights into the players of the Trump West Wing, from Jared Kushner and John Kelly to Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway.

He even helped Trump craft his enemies list, knowing who was loyal and who was not.

And he took notes. Hundreds of pages of notes. In real-time.

Sims stood with the President in the eye of the storm raging around him, and now he tells the story that no one else has written—because no one else could. The story of what it was really like in the West Wing as a member of the President’s team. The story of power and palace intrigue, backstabbing and bold victories, as well as painful moral compromises, occasionally with yourself.

Team of Vipers tells the full story, as only a true insider could.

Reviews

  • Cannot believe this was published

    1
    By Georgiajack$$
    I am at a loss, and I don’t know where to begin but this book was not informational and definately not worth my time.
  • TRUMP

    3
    By Keith Carty
    Keith Carty
  • I didn't read the book

    5
    By NateTalbo
    But I don't need to. If trump tweets its all lies and it's untrue it's prob all truths and spot on
  • I don’t even know what to say.

    3
    By I love Obama!
    Your description says that it’s the first true accounting of the Trump presidency, and yet the title is called a Pit of Vipers. How in the world is this not just another biased attempt to make the president look bad? There have been at least ten books written about how Trump is running America into the ground and they have all been proven to be completely biased and lies. You probably have at least one chapter in your book telling us how he tries to shame the media by calling them liars and Fake-News, but your book is just proving to us how he is right and you guys will write and say anything to make him look bad. You guys just don’t get it, every time you come out with books like these, every time you lie, falsely smear, change the story, and just outright write false statements just to make Trump look bad, you make us independent’s believe him when he yells Fake-News. What am I supposed to do? On the one hand, he just yells everything by the left is biased and Fake, and on the other you write a book with this kind of title? I don’t know what to say. Maybe Trump is right...

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