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    In 'A Higher Loyalty,' James Comey Describes An 'Unethical, Untethered' President

    NPR's Ron Elving says the former FBI director's new memoir is unlikely to convert the committed partisans on either side. Instead, it may well cause further entrenchment.
    by Ron Elving Apr 13, 2018 5 minutes
    Former FBI Director James Comey speaks at a hearing on Capitol Hill on June 8, 2017.

    A Higher Loyalty, by far the most consequential book yet in the literature of the Trump presidency, is arriving as political conflict roils every aspect of that presidency. Former FBI Director James Comey's scathing review will not settle the arguments about President Trump, nor will it calm the controversy over its author. But it will furnish mountains of ammunition for combatants on all sides.

    Comey fires countless fusillades against the president who fired him in May 2017, summing up at the end: "[T]his president is unethical, untethered to truth and institutional values." Trump's leadership, Comey says, is "transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty."

    He compares Trump's insistence on a "silent circle of assent" to the code observed in the Mafia crime family that Comey helped bust as a young prosecutor in

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