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'A Higher Loyalty' book review: In the throes of a scandal

A Higher Loyalty is the first big memoir by a key player in the alarming melodrama that is the Trump administration

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A HIGHER LOYALTY
Truth, Lies, and Leadership
By James Comey
Flatiron Books
290pages; $29.99

In his absorbing new book, former FBI Director James B Comey calls the Trump presidency a “forest fire” that is doing serious damage to the country’s norms and traditions. “This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values,” Mr Comey writes.

Decades before he led the FBI’s investigation into whether members of Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election, Mr Comey was a career prosecutor who helped dismantle the Gambino crime family; and he doesn’t hesitate in these pages to draw a direct analogy between the Mafia

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