Rage (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 604 Ratings
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- $22.99
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest.
Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump’s head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.
In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months—an utterly vivid window into Trump’s mind—the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the “dynamite behind every door.”
At key decision points, Rage shows how Trump’s responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and style he developed during his first three years as president.
Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggled to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making.
Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand witnesses as well as participants’ notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents.
Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a “fantasy film.”
Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over Covid-19 and the economic calamity. “Don’t worry about it, Bob. Okay?” Trump told the author in July. “Don’t worry about it. We’ll get to do another book. You’ll find I was right.”
Customer Reviews
Ponderous.
Woodward was fair to Trump.
The first part was the build up to 2020 and the latter portion was 2020 and how the president responded to the seven million mile long parade of crises that Trump has had to handle. Much light was shed on the relationship between Trump and KJU, the letters between them were alarming and as intimate as the president said they were.
The interview dialogues were headache inspiring. You could about hear Trump struggle to express himself coherently. It was frustrating to hear him constantly undermine Woodward’s credibility and reputation.
I felt the epilogue wasn’t needed. Anyone that read the book drew the same conclusion spelled out there.
Still though—a good read. Interesting and reflective. A great way to spend a few hours in your house thinking over for whom to vote.
Deciding
I’m about to buy this book. I have discounted the reviews with misspellings and grammar mistakes. That leaves out most of the 1 star reviews. I’m going to buy right now. I will post a review after I finish.
Rage
All of the kool aide drinking brown nosed trump sheep are gonna hate this one simply because it’s true. Trump is unfit & unhinged. Trump’s supporters are just as dangerously aloof as he is. Any logical, rational, human being with common sense has to see how trump is a clear & present danger to the national security to the United States of America!
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