[....] The author of this one is Fox News Channel media critic Howard Kurtz, a former longtime reporter at The Washington Post. And as The Post's Ashley Parker writes, his book — “Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War Over the Truth” — confirms and expands upon media accounts of the chaos happening behind the scenes at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Among the juiciest anecdotes:

• Trump has a tendency to do whatever his advisers most strongly advise him against, and they even have a term for such behavior: his “defiance disorder.”
• He, out of nowhere, tweeted his decision to ban transgender people from the military before a scheduled meeting with then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to discuss his options on the matter. “Oh my God, he just tweeted this,” Priebus reportedly said.
• His aides were similarly blindsided by his accusation, also via Twitter, that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump during the presidential campaign.
• Trump was strongly advised not to dispatch then-press secretary Sean Spicer to dispute stories about Trump's inaugural crowd size and later admitted, “I shouldn’t have done that.”

We don't know what the overall tone of the book is and how many more such anecdotes it contains; Parker obtained excerpts of the book, which is due out Jan. 29. And she notes that those excerpts sometimes contain a more flattering portrayal of Trump than we see in Wolff's book and elsewhere in the media [....]