Rage

Bob Woodward

Sep 2020 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Robert Petkoff

About this audiobook

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.”

Includes excerpts from Bob Woodward’s interviews with President Donald J. Trump for Rage.

Ratings and reviews

Got this as a birthday present!! A very well written book with real articles of proof to back up the authors conclusions. Anyone with half a brain can draw many of the conclusions brought fourth for themselves. Trump Cultists will hate this book and warp into to something that it is not. The alternate Universe Collides with Reality in this crushing fact base book by Bob Woodward. ---I see a lot of Trump supporter rage over this book. "out of context" if a lie is truth then Truth is something made up? Woodward has Trump on tape and writes it all word for word and he gives Trump chances to change his answers or reword his answers. --- "Out of context" just does no apply. --- Another Trump supporter says that is a "Hit Job".. How so? Woodward only wrote what he heard, and recorded. Who made mistakes? If any part was untruthful Woodward would be open to a Trumpian fashion Liability Law suit and be forced to print a retraction and remove his books from the shelf. Get over it crybaby. --- Another Trump supporter said "Back Stabbed Trump". I am sorry. Is back stabbing just a Donald Trump thing? Really.. Where is my better than Obama Care? --- If Trump supporters want to post reviews, please give the real facts and supporting proof as Woodward did in "Rage". Or write your own fantasy Trump book where all the brown is gone from America along with, Jews, Catholics, Muslims, and any other class of Americans you deem unworthy to be in America. Or better yet, move to Russia with Trump after he loses this November.

Just another person being paid off by the Dems trying so damn hard to get out all their bs lies any way they can before election. Smh I'm surprised it actually cost money and isn't free but then again they've been paying ppl to destroy our country.

Saw author on 60 minutes. He’s such a back stabber! Probably supported by Democrats. Acting like he is friendly to president and then all the while planning to attempt to destroy him.

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.