Book #310 of 2021: Rage by Bob Woodward This title from summer 2020 is a reasonable follow-up to author Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House of two years earlier, but I don’t find that the reporter has gained any new levels of insight into the 45th US president, despite his greater access. Drawing …
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Book Review: The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
Book #3 of 2019: The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein This 1976 semi-sequel to All The President’s Men continues Woodward and Bernstein’s coverage of the Watergate era, drawing on trusted confidential sources to provide an exhaustive behind-the-scenes account of the events leading up to Richard Nixon’s resignation from the White House. It’s …
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Book Review: Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
Book #179 of 2018: Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward There are no real bombshell revelations in this inside account of the early Donald Trump presidency, which reads like a less tawdry Fire and Fury but is overall in line with other coverage of the administration. Still, original Watergate reporter Bob Woodward …
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Book Review: All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
Book #103 of 2017: All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward A gripping firsthand account of the Watergate investigation, told by the two Washington Post reporters who first broke the story and kept following up on its leads until the scandal ultimately brought down a president. It’s easy for people like me, …
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