The Prologue to Fear leads off the book with a shocking revelation. Two shocking revelations in Bob Woodward’s new book Fear is investigative journalism at its best.įear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward (2018) 357 pages ★★★★★ It’s not just an indictment of Donald Trump’s erratic behavior and the sycophantic people who surround him. This isn’t gossip or conversations overheard in a hallway. Woodward names names and quotes at length the participants in secret policy meetings and private conversations both in and out of the Oval Office.

But none of the previous books I’ve read about the White House under Donald Trump has dived so deeply into how policy is made (or unmade) there. David Frum ( Trumpocracy) and David Cay Johnston ( It’s Even Worse Than You Think) have made especially useful contributions. Yes, others have written in a serious vein. Fear is far and away the most substantive of the nearly one dozen books I’ve read on Donald Trump’s presidency. But Woodward demonstrates his journalistic chops in this meticulously researched account. It might seem that everything of note has already been said. Here comes Bob Woodward’s new book with the latest wrinkles in the tangled story of Donald Trump and his conduct in the White House.

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