The most comprehensive collection of Jared and Ivanka’s scandals, missteps, and personality flaws to date. If anyone, anywhere, has reported something negative about 'Javanka,' Ward has found it ... very much of its genre—which is to say, contemporary White House palace-intrigue reporting ... an Instagram-filter approach to journalism, making allegations both fuzzier and sexier ... Many of Ward’s meatier allegations are drawn from reporting in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and New York magazine. This is still a useful service. Kushner’s complex, sprawling scandals have dribbled out in newsprint over the course of many months, so it’s clarifying to have them compiled and summarized in one place, even when the reporting isn’t new ... serves its readers exactly what they are craving ... Anything this delicious comes with an expiration date, and might leave you feeling a little ill afterward. But it’s still helplessly fun to devour.

A damning depiction of the Kushner clan and 'Javanka' ... an amalgam of Page Six-like dish, post-Holocaust social history, firsthand investigative reporting and recapitulation of Javanka & Co’s contempt for rules, at least those that directly affect them ... Ward puts it all out there, waiting for the reader to inhale, gasp and possibly heave in disgust ... few leave with reputations intact ...Kushner, Inc does not entertain. It is not Fire and Fury 2.0. Rather, it traces how we arrived at this point, where Javanka plays an outsized role in driving national decisions and our nightly news.

There are no blockbuster revelations here regarding Kushner’s meeting with a Russian banker or his involvement in a meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower, two issues that have drawn the interest of investigators. Ward is, however, particularly critical of Trump’s decision to hand over Middle East policy to Kushner, which led to clashes with then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and others ... a dark and mostly one-sided portrait, one with which the Kushner and Trump families no doubt will disagree ... The greatest challenge of the book, and one that is likely to raise questions, is fulfilling the third element of Ward’s subtitle: 'Greed. Ambition. Corruption.' The latter word connotes criminality; while Kushner’s father served time in prison, neither Jared nor Ivanka has been accused of crimes by a prosecutor. In the text, while Ward hammers the couple on page after page, she doesn’t explicitly accuse them of corruption as defined by legal statutes.

A burn book with page numbers ... Ward seems to forget the original tenet of White House reporting: Everyone has an agenda. She has said she interviewed 220 people for the book but is vague on who they are. Some claims seem to originate with the pair's rivals, including Bannon. Kushner, Inc. is populated by 'close associates,' 'family friends' and, occasionally, a 'person.' Sometimes no one is cited at all. At one point, the anonymous person who gave Ivanka a tour of her high school pops up to say she seemed like a lonely teenager ... There is a form of fact laundering that takes place through books like these. Imagine a sketchy claim with a single, biased source. Good news outlets wouldn't run it. But since publishing houses lack the editorial standards (fact checking, requiring multiple sources, etc.) that those outlets have, the claim can appear in a news book. And from there, through outlets covering the book like news, the claim gets into the news outlets that would never have printed it in the first place ... Ward's own yields generally feel meager, and she wraps even the smallest scoops in a fog of insinuation and menace ... feels a little like an assassination attempt with Nerf pellets ... A further wrong note is Ward's treatment of Judaism. The way Judaism frequently crops up in the context of power brokering, greedy cabals and string-pulling feels, at very best, tone-deaf ... Ward seems to lack curiosity about her subjects' inner lives in general ... Ward still hasn't found the real story.

In this meticulously researched book, Ward reveals that Jared and Ivanka are not just the president’s chief enablers: they, like him, also appear indifferent to the rule of law and basic ethics. Clearly written accounts of the Kushner’s political and personal dealings paint a shocking and realistic image of their alleged corruption, inexperience, and possible criminal activity. For those readers who have a pretty good general knowledge of the endless chaos and confusion surrounding the Trumps and Kushners this expose will not be shocking or surprising. Overall, this book definitely stands out head and shoulders above many of the recent books on the Trump family. It is not just a repeat of the reports of events but is well written account of what actually happened. But be warned if you really want to be creeped out and want a sleepless night, enter the unsavory and often seedy world of 'Javanka' where ruthlessness, egotism, and pure ignorance run rampant.

Many details here have been previously reported, and the author’s efforts to elevate the book above a clip job rest mainly on a raft of juicy quotes delivered by anonymous sources ... As a portrait of Jared’s character, the book’s fiendish aura is hard to trust, but given the factual record, it’s not out of bounds ... a handy primer on a troublesome Trump in-law, even setting its gossipy parts aside.

A study in arrogance, incompetence, and corruption ... Ward's rehash of the 'Javanka' saga is well-researched but not well-presented; it's an eye-glazing maze of small-to-middling improprieties, with the thread often getting lost in the chaos of White House power plays and backstabbing. Still, Ward offers a useful, though dispiriting, guide to the ascendance of private business over the public interest in the Trump administration.