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Rage Hardcover – 16 September 2020
by Bob Woodward (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
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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 No 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 first-hand 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.'
Hardcover : 480 pages
Publisher : Simon & Schuster UK (16 September 2020)
Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
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About the Author
Bob Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post where he has worked for 49 years and reported on every American president from Nixon to Trump. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first for the Post’s coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and second 20 years later as the lead Post reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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joy m johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in Australia on 16 September 2020
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Interesting to read a book about Donald Trump from an award winning author.
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LRH
2.0 out of 5 stars Not for discerning readers seeking verification
Reviewed in Australia on 17 September 2020
Well written, yet disappointingly, it feels to me like it is riddled with propaganda. I was actually hoping for some kind of authentic insight, something that I wouldn’t have to do more mental gymnastics to be able to accept as legitimate fact. However, this book failed to provide me with the reassurance I was hoping for.
It contains several discrepancies which are easily disproved with a simple web search, much is lacking proper context, and whilst this book is partly based in fact, a larger proportion of it is really just another example of your everyday op-Ed.
If I had known this going in, I would not have bought it. That said, the writer is skilled and the prose reads well. Credit where credit is due.
However, for someone wavering on the edge, where the more I learn, the more questions are raised as to the truth of what I’ve heard, rather than putting an end to my feelings of discomfort regarding the lies we seem to all have been swallowing since 2016. I will continue to search & learn, if you are certain in your convictions, this may likely be a more rewarding read for you. For me however, it fell very flat indeed.
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R. Patrick Baugh
5.0 out of 5 stars The book you've been waiting for
Reviewed in the United States on 16 September 2020
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Although the juiciest parts of the book (along with the audio tapes) have been out for over a week now, the book still packs a punch, as all of the author's books do. Full of insider (you can't get more insider that POTUS) information, the author chronicles the current Administration's fights, feuds, potential felonies and more. Not sure why POTUS thought he could charm the author, but it didn't work, and what you get is straight from the horse's mouth.
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prisrob
4.0 out of 5 stars Not Just Character But Complicity
Reviewed in the United States on 16 September 2020
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What is the message from Bob Woodward’s book, ‘Rage’? Not only is Donald Trump incompetent, but his success is fooling and instilling fear into all these people who worked for him as they become complicit in his administration.
Woodward describes the events and has dates, times involved, and with his 19 visits with Trump, he has tapes. These conversations with Trump are the base of this book. All these people who have come and gone and most are named as anonymous sources, consider Trump not safe to serve, but no where is it recorded that anyone tried to join forces to bring trump down. Did trump have something on each of these people that they feared he would spill their secrets? No one offered to tell anyone with authority what they knew.
It is said that friends of Woodward, suggested to Trump that he should meet with Woodward so that the book Woodward was going to write would be something trump could control, unlike the previous book,Fear, which tore trump to shreds. In this book he would have some say into what was written. But, Trump would talk to Woodward and say whatever came to mind. Of all of the tapes of conversations, it is the Covid19 that is bringing the most news. All of the conversations with the anonymous people bring some info and input, but they all have been heard before. It is Trump’s own voice that does him in. He gave Woodward an extraordinary amount of time, but the book did not bring Trump into a better light as he had wished. Trump does not know how to stop talking and his lies become his truths.
The opening pages and the finale contain most of the information you need. The info in-between is important and gives great credence to the life of Donald Trump as president.
Recommended. prisrob 09-15-2020
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C Wm (Andy) Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Want to Rant & Rage, But, Now Realize How Brilliant Donald Trump Really Is...PSYCHOPATHICALLY BOLD
Reviewed in the United States on 16 September 2020
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Yet another tome in the Trump scandal series.
WRITING: Typical Woodward style. Not a classic, but very readable with solid editing.
LANGUAGE: More “f-words” than some will like, but this is the language used today.
ANYTHING NEW: Well, on specifics, yes, unless you’ve been watching the recent excerpts posted in the news, ‘fake’ and ‘real.’ What strikes me most, though, is Trump’s gall to tell supporters COVID is overblown, or a hoax, while telling Woodward how dangerous it is.
Honestly, when I got this book I was prepared to yell bloody murder. Then, as I poured over Trump’s words, I came to realize how similar the man is to the murderer on Colombo. He’s so much smarter than anyone ever suspected, and toys with his pursuers in a game of cat and mouse while handling great threats to our nation.
At last, I do understand Trump, thanks to Woodward’s probing into how Trump actually thinks.
The bizarre aspect is that Trump took part in several recorded, face-to-face interviews, knowing Woodward would make the recordings public. Then, when the book comes out, Trump calls Woodward a has been, or some such nonsense, and his fellow GOP leadership takes Trump’s side. Why?
Are they gutless, clueless, or just playing games with their followers and Woodward?
Enjoy the book. It shows us volumes of information that will serve as grist for universities studying politics and psychopaths.
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Five stars out of five.
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Jim Davidson
5.0 out of 5 stars Nixon tapes move over
Reviewed in Canada on 16 September 2020
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The book arrived today, the day of release.
The audio tape teasers on news broadcasts are captivating and damning. Woodward's interviews with Steven Colbert and Anderson Cooper are solid.
Thus far, I've read the first five chapters and the prologue. It's an easy read in terms of writing style; the content makes a Stephen King novel seem tame.
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linda galella
3.0 out of 5 stars Investigative reporting or is it ???
Reviewed in the United States on 15 September 2020
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This is not the Bob Woodward we knew from the Watergate years. This is not hard hitting journalistic integrity being considered for its potential value. Much of the material for this book was handed to Woodward, freely and graciously. It was turned into 44 chapters of soap opera fodder, flushed out with dialogue to fill out the script. It’s really quite an amazing work that reads like well done fiction, only it’s not.
Sadly, the elements of this story are based on facts that have been opined by the author and his very large and capable staff. The book is extremely well written and the production value is excellent. It includes thoughtful B&W pictures of key players that include pointed commentary, an interactive notes section, (for the Kindle version), as well as the same for the notes section.
My biggest issue with this book is that it was presented with bias AND topped off with the author’s OP ED piece, as if this were an edition of his Sunday paper, which I’d NEVER purchase. I continue to hold out hope that some journalist from days gone bye will remember the nobles oblige; it wasn’t Woodward 📚
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