Nothing in Bob Woodward's sober and grainy new book, Fear: Trump in the White House, is especially surprising…You turn the pages because Woodward, as he accumulates the queasy-making details, delivers on the promise of his title.
The New York Times - Dwight Garner
09/17/2018
In the worldwide capital of leaks and anonymous dishing that is Washington, secrets can be almost impossible to keep. But somehow over the past 19 months, the fact that America’s most famous investigative journalist was quietly chipping away at a book that delves into the dysfunctions of President Trump’s White House remained largely unknown.
Senior officials, acting as lone wolves concerned with preserving their own reputations, spoke to Woodward on their own — with some granting him hours of their time out of a fear of being the last person in the room to offer his or her viewpoint. As one former administration official put it: ‘He hooked somebody, and that put the fear of God in everyone else.’ Another former official added: ‘It’s gonna be killer. Everyone talked with Woodward.’
Donald Trump is about to get the Bob Woodward treatment.
A harrowing portrait of the Trump presidency . . . Again and again, Woodward recounts at length how Trump’s national security team was shaken by his lack of curiosity and knowledge about world affairs and his contempt for the mainstream perspectives of military and intelligence leaders.”— Phillip Rucker and Robert Costa, The Washington Post — David Martin, CBS News CNN Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker Jill Abramson, The Washington Post David A. Graham, The Atlantic — Peter Baker — Mark Landler and Maggie Haberman, New York Times “ The more heartening message from FEAR is that we still have institutions and individuals, including Bob Woodward, who will continue checking the most destructive instincts of Donald Trump.”— Joe Scarborough — Mike Allen, Axios — Nick Bryant, BBC — POLITICO Playbook — Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC — President Donald J. Trump, in a call to Bob Woodward, August 14, 2018
