''Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency'' is a nonfiction book by Michael Wolff. It was published by

Henry Holt and Company Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt. Currently, the company publishes in the fields ...

in 2021. This book is the third in a nonfiction trilogy by Wolff updating information on the

presidency A presidency is an administration or the executive, the collective administrative and governmental entity that exists around an office of president of a state or nation. Although often the executive branch of government, and often personified by ...

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of ...

and focuses on the final days and the ending of Trump's presidency. The title come from the typical claim parroted by Trump himself, that he won ''in a landslide'' in the 2020 election. The two preceding books of the trilogy are ''

Fire and Fury ''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' is a 2018 book by journalist Michael Wolff which according to Wolff, details the behavior of U.S. President Donald Trump, the staff of his 2016 presidential campaign, and the White House staff. ...

: Inside the Trump White House'' and '' Siege: Trump Under Fire''.

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Dwight Garner Dwight Garner (born January 8, 1965) is an American journalist and longtime writer and editor for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper. He is the author of ''Garner's Quotations: A Modern Miscellany'' and ...

, reviewing for ''

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'', praised the book as "smart, vivid and intrepid"; he viewed it as "more vivid and apt" than ''

I Alone Can Fix It ''I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year'' is a nonfiction book written by ''Washington Post'' reporters Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker. It was published by Penguin Press in 2021 and was a ''New York Times'' bestsell ...

'' by ''

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'' journalists

Carol Leonnig Carol Duhurst Leonnig is an American investigative journalist. She has been a staff writer at ''The Washington Post'' since 2000, and was part of a team of national security reporters that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporti ...

and

Philip Rucker Philip Rucker is an American reporter and author. He is currently the White House Bureau Chief at ''The Washington Post'', where he has been working since 2005. Early life and education Rucker is a 2002 graduate of the St. Andrew's School in Sa ...

, a book covering the same time period and released about the same time. Garner wrote that the "impudent and inquisitive qualities" of ''Landslide'' were similar to

Joe McGinniss Joseph Ralph McGinniss Sr. (December 9, 1942 – March 10, 2014) was an American non-fiction writer and novelist. The author of twelve books, he first came to prominence with the best-selling ''The Selling of the President 1968'' which describe ...

' ''

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'' and that Wolff effectively "zeros in on the chaos and the

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, on how nearly everyone with a sense of decency fled Trump in his final months, and how he was left with clapped-out charlatans like

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and

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