Fear
Trump in the White House
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4.1 • 95 Ratings
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Publisher Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
THE OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘Fear is a meticulously researched account of a White House and a president in financial, legal and personal disorder . . . essential reading’ Daily Mail
THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT.
With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.
Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office.
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'I think you’ve always been fair' President Donald J. Trump, in a call to Bob Woodward, August 14, 2018
'The sheer weight of anecdotes depicts a man with no empathy and a pathological capacity for lying' Financial Times
'Fear depicts a White House awash in dysfunction, where the Lord of the Flies is the closest thing to an owner's manual' The Guardian
'Though his books are often sensational, he is the opposite of sensationalist . . . He’s Washington's chronicler in chief' Nick Bryant, BBC
'Horribly fascinating. Strongly recommended. If you can bear it' Richard Dawkins
'He is the master and I'd trust him over politicians of either party any day of the week' New York Times
'Woodward is truth’s gold standard' Washington Post
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In a compulsively readable narrative "drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand participants and witnesses," Washington Post associate editor Woodward contends that members of the Trump administration took steps to "intentionally block some of what they believed were the president's most dangerous impulses." Woodward deems those actions "no less than an administrative coup d'etat." In the most dramatic example, Gary Cohn, Trump's top economic advisor, removed a draft letter from the Oval Office that terminated a free trade agreement with South Korea, which constituted, in Cohn's view, "a potential trigger to a national security catastrophe." As Cohn had hoped, Trump "never noticed the missing letter." Woodward also offers other sensational anecdotes unrelated to his administrative coup theme such as an argument between chief of staff John Kelly and the head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement union that was so heated that Trump later said he thought the two were going to get into a fistfight as well as the occasional positive comment, such as those about the First Couple's affection for each other, and Trump's newspaper-reading habits. He ends with another sensational claim: that John Dowd, Trump's lawyer for the special counsel Russia investigation, told Trump that he would end up behind bars if he agreed to be interviewed by the special counsel, and considered Trump "a fucking liar." Woodward's reporting, with its heavy reliance on "multiple deep background interviews with firsthand sources" who remain anonymous, will be problematic for some, especially those not already inclined to believe the worst about the president. But readers who trust the reporting will find this to be both entertaining and disturbing reading.
Customer Reviews
Shocking gripping and nauseating
Sets the sage for suborned governance by the most powerful man in the world. Shocking, gripping and nauseating, with a quite unexpected level of depth of access. This is a reporter able to get sources to reveal so much more than they must have anticipated.
Very Good Read.
I downloaded this book from Apple just a few days after it was released so it took me about 3 months to complete. I found it a real eye-opener on what life is really like in the Trump White House and I don’t doubt one single word written by Bob Woodward. Anyone who is unsure about buying it should take my advice and go ahead and complete the purchase as you will never put it away until you get it finished. A 100% brilliant read on Donald Trump’s presidency.
Excellent reporting by one of Washington’s most distinguished journalists
This book is NOT fake news, it’s based on accurate reporting and is as close a version of the truth we are likely to get of this dysfunctional White House.