Rage by Bob Woodward
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Rage
- By: Bob Woodward
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Activism
Publisher's Summary
An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob Woodward.
Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump’s moves as he faces a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest.
Woodward, the number one internationally best-selling author of 13 number one best sellers, including Fear: Trump in the White House, shows Trump up close in his entirety before the 2020 presidential election.
President Trump has said publicly that Woodward has interviewed him. What is not known is that Trump provided Woodward a window into his mind through a series of exclusive interviews. 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. Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with first-hand witnesses, as well as participants’ notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents.
Woodward obtained 25 personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that have not been public before. Kim describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a 'fantasy film', as the two leaders engage in an extraordinary diplomatic minuet.
Rage will be the foundational account of the Trump presidency, its turmoil, contradictions and risks. It is an essential document for anyone seeking an accurate inside view of the Trump years - volatile and vivid.
©2020 Bob Woodward (P)2020 Simon & Schuster UK
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Enlightening
The content of this book has given me a better understanding of what has happened within the Whitehouse over the last four years. As someone with a novice interest in American politics it has been an enlightening experience, as well as a chilling one.
Trump’s responses with Woodward remind me of some of those I have with my own father, who has a diagnose neurodegenerative disease. scattered and focused on the emotions, and spinning the facts to suit his own reality.
I think Woodward was fair with Trump. As President he should be held to the highest standards. He has the highest responsibility for his people wellbeing, and by his own admission he will not take ownership of bad, while taking full responsibility of the good. I agree with Woodward that this is not the qualities we want in a leader of a nation.
I encourage anyone with an interest in being a politician to listen to this book as a case study and a warning of what not to do.
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Exhausting brilliant
Bob at the end of this book stated he felt weary about the state of the country and the impact of the virus on America. I feel personally weary having listened to this.
Woodward’s reporting on this book was just excellent, he was fair to trump multiple times in their interviews announcing where trump was right, but also giving him measured questions that could elevate the man and consciously bring him as a human empathetic and compassionate man and as a leader to the forth front, but alas Trump in his personal interviews with Woodward was just incapable of internal reflection and candidness about his real feeling about the suffering of so many.
This was one of the most frustrating books, I honestly felt like smacking my head against a wall with trumps nonsensical ramblings and zero sum thinking and because the interviews are mostly recorded it leaves little doubt that trump has the mentality of a 5 year old, incapable of taking personal responsibility, for understanding nuance on complex world issues he presumes are simple, his binary thinking and his victim mindset.
His language is at best third grade. I was kind of hoping with direct interviews much of his rhetoric and approach to language were an act but no he really is this narcissistic and also incompetent.
He truly believes he has done a great job, now at the time of this review over 200,000 Americans are dead!
The economy in shambles, tens of millions unemployed. And he uses just fear tactics without any real plan to salvage America. Trump clearly has no idea what he is doing, no plan, no ideology, no vision, on division.
Antifa today is the caravan of migrants in 2018. It’s all just none sense. And I wish the media would just stop covering every dumb thing he says on a mic. He is clearly playing them, and thrives on outraging the left, to steal pointless headlines.
Trump to be honest was unintelligent, nonsensical and kind of boring. Graham, kushner, Mattis, and Rex tillerson were actually far more interesting because they have dimensions, trump does not. And it’s from his own words you can make this statement.
This book should tick off liberals, frustrate and cause direct introspection for conservatives and redefine to swing voters what and who this man really is.
God help America honestly if this man wins again.
Great book, excellent reporting and Woodward has the patients of a saint.
I’ll add that it’s sad RBG’s wish won’t be honoured and that she didn’t get to see out the year.
As this book actually contains trump being interviews I’d say it’s an essential pickup, that and his nieces book if you want to try and understand the 45th POTUS.
Prompts to the narrator, not an easy task repeating trumps words.
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