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You are here: Home / Book review: Bob Woodward’s ‘Fear’ is a meticulous, frightening look inside the Trump White House

Book review: Bob Woodward’s ‘Fear’ is a meticulous, frightening look inside the Trump White House

September 13, 2018 dailyherald Leave a Comment

“Fear: Trump in the White House” by Bob Woodward; Simon & Schuster; 420 pages It’s hard to imagine a more disturbing portrait of a president than the one Bob Woodward painted of Richard Nixon in his final days: paranoid, poisoned by power, pounding the carpet and talking to the portraits on the walls. But the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, as recounted by Woodward in his new book, “Fear,” are strikingly similar and in some ways even more gut-wrenching. Then, as now, the country faced a crisis of leadership caused by a president’s fatal flaws and inability to function in the job. In both “Fear” and “The Final Days,” which he co-authored with Carl Bernstein, Woodward shows how a federal criminal investigation clouds and then comes to obsess a president and paralyze the operations of the White House. At a moment when feverish talk of presidential impeachment dominates the political discourse, “Fear” is full of Nixonian echoes, including Trump’s childishly short attention span and refusal to read briefing papers. Nixon’s aides were instructed not to give him anything more complicated than a Reader’s Digest article. “Fear” is an important book, not only because it raises serious questions about the president’s basic fitness for the office but also because of who the author is. Woodward’s dogged investigative reporting led to Nixon’s resignation. He has written or co-authored 18 books, 12 of them No. 1 best-sellers; broken other major stories as a reporter and associate editor of The Washington Post; and… [Read full story]




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