Fear : : Trump in the White House

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Call Number: 973.933 Wo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Politics / Woodward, Bob
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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.
"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. [This book] is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president's first years in office. 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. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. Often with day-by-day details, dialogue and documentation, Fear tracks key foreign issues from North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, the Middle East, NATO, China and Russia. It reports in depth on Trump's key domestic issues, particularly trade and tariff disputes, immigration, tax legislation, the Paris Climate Accord, and the racial violence in Charlottesville in 2017. Fear presents vivid details of the negotiations between Trump's attorneys and Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia investigation, laying out for the first time the meeting-by-meeting discussions and strategies. It discloses how senior Trump White House officials joined together to steal draft orders from the president's Oval Office desk so he would not issue directives that would jeopardize critical intelligence operations. 'It was no less than an administrative coup d'état,' Woodward writes, 'a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.'"--Dust jacket.

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What a disappointment submitted by rickmktg on January 19, 2019, 7:52am I expected more from Woodward. This book doesn't flow. Very disjointed. Tells one thing, then a small paragraph about another thing that he couldn't find a place to put it, so he put it there. There is zero new information here that I see. I also read Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump Whitehouse and it's better.

All these worthless current events related books are a dime a dozen, but I did expect better from Woodward. submitted by Tassos on March 15, 2019, 7:55am All these worthless current events related books are a dime a dozen, but I did expect better from Woodward. I wasted one hour of valuable sleep last night to read the first part of this book (until Trump's win in 2016). It will get worse after.

Would Bob Woodward write anything other than an excellent book? submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 21, 2019, 11:00pm 4.5/5 Would Bob Woodward write anything other than an excellent book? _Fear_ is organized, well-written, explains the who and what of the important players in the Trump White House, and paints a picture of the inner dynamics of an administration that should raise alarms for Americans who desire a well-run government with leadership that is actually, well, leading.

A must submitted by alexmichaelp on August 27, 2020, 3:48pm Please read this if you need to understand this president.

Great read but... submitted by jibkidder on July 5, 2022, 11:55pm Great read but my oh my things age quick in this day and age. I'm similarly thinking of the Stormy Daniels book, in both cases, so many shockers in there, and yet the train is moving so fast that it's like it's all immediately out of date! Dizzying times!