Fear: Trump in the White House

Bob Woodward

Sep 2018 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Robert Petkoff

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“Explosive.”—The Washington Post

“Devastating.”—The New Yorker

“Unprecedented.”—CNN

“Great reporting...astute.”—Hugh Hewitt

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT

With authoritative reporting honed through nine presidencies, 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.

Fear 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 top secret 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.”

Ratings and reviews

Having read the paperback, I and now seeing the numerous disproves "facts" stated in the book I must say instead of going to books like these which are so very biased why not do independent research. I respect everyone's right to free speech but not their right to false statements sadly there is no way to separate opinions and facts in the political conversation anymore with emotion driving so many wants turned into "needs" I just wish we could all unify as one country.

True investigative reporting reflects the copious research, notes, interviews and factchecking to the finest details. I’d be hard pressed to find another author who could match Bob Woodward’s ability and dedication. “Fear” surprised me with its integrity and uneditorialized fact-based style. I thought it would be partisan. Instead the chapters put me in the room “listening” to the people we have seen on the news, yet refreshingly without commenting on their words or actions. I listened to this book through Audible. By the end I wanted to send the narrator back to voiceover class. EVERY sentence ended by emphasizing the last word. It was like watching an amateur actor flailing to emote using windmill arms. An author and book this prestigious and of this quality deserves the best narrator. Unfortunately Robert Petkoff’s reading of this book aloud fell far short and was downright irritating. I would listen to it again, though, with a better reader.

How can someone write a book and call it a biography, when they only took the bad things one did and not tell whole story with a lot the good stuff and his over all achievement in everything he has done, one sided is not ok, it just spreads more hate and trust me, we do not need that...America needs help and from the people not the presidents he is doing fine.

About the author

Bob Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked for more than 50 years. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his Watergate coverage and the other for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has authored 21 bestselling books, 15 of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers.