Rage - Bob Woodward

Rage

By Bob Woodward

  • Release Date: 2020-09-15
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4
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Description

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.”

Reviews

  • Understanding

    5
    By Davejusino
    The details in this book gave me a better understanding of the vision and the focus of Mr. 45. The lack of compassion to the American people can be really recognize through your writing and the mindset of the president. I just wish that everybody else would be realistic to the problems going on in this country. Not democrat or republican just human
  • Rage

    5
    By Talk about Music
    This man was not mentally able to truly do the job of President. This book shows that clearly.
  • The Book’s Title Reflects Woodward’s Mood

    2
    By PHXDana
    To finish a book with the assessment that Donald Trump is “the wrong man for the job,” Bob Woodward shifts from reasoned analyst to political polemicist. It’s not a shift that’s good for the nation. Woodward had been one of the few remaining reporters on the planet. As the shift of the press to for-profit media organizations and now to click-driven revenue machines happened, there are fewer and fewer news reporting services. The combination of consumption of news through social media and the revenue drive of the highly profitable parent companies of media organizations has in large part killed news reporting. Bob Woodward joins the clickbait generation of media, where malice is present in every headline and in most conclusions, because it drives more clicks and more social engagement. The book doesn’t age well. While Woodward focuses on the president as his subject, he misses perhaps the largest story of his lifetime: the origin of the COVID-19 virus. Woodward interviews the players and had perhaps the most access, but never picked up on the culpability of Anthony Fauci and the US for funding experiments at the Wuhan lab. Woodward never asked for, and Fauci certainly never offered, information about the lab in Wuhan, the gain of function tests that were being done, and the funding partner for those tests. Instead, Woodward wrote an apologist piece about the “grandfatherly” Fauci. Yikes.
  • Well I knew Trump was mentally ill, this book reinforced it.

    5
    By Totty1229
    Glad he is out, we all know how he mismanagement this pandemic and so much more. The man is insane.
  • I really liked it

    5
    By Matthew D Marcum
    I’m cautious what I read when it comes to books like this, but the fact checking Bob Woodward did made this book to be the truth, I have to admit, reading about all Trump’s antics and quotes, left me angry at times, Trump’s antics were never ending
  • A great book!

    5
    By laithido
    Not all septuagenarians are crazy, stupid, selfish, repetitive to the point of being robotic like the subject of this book! Thank you Bob for executing one of the most intimate portraits of the worst leader we have had in my life time!
  • I enjoyed it

    4
    By Mr.Snowden
    I enjoyed this book and especially getting to read exactly what trump thinks and said off camera. Even though he knew it was being recorded. The author did a great job at reporting the info he received even though trump can be hard to follow.
  • Good Read

    5
    By carbass01
    Very well written. Scary and, unfortunately, believable. Much of it is still playing out.
  • To those who hate this book

    5
    By EHK 21
    Trump and his minions have attacked this book (“fake” they say), but they have not been able to refute a single assertion or quote presented by Woodward that I have seen. Most of it is verified by multitudes of other sources as well as by Woodward’s tapes of his conversations with Trump. Read this book and you’ll see what a horrific President and habitual liar Trump is. It is shocking how Trump has harmed our nation as Rage documents.
  • Great

    5
    By Davidsito6
    So many thing were exposed about the world’s most evil man

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