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applegrove

(118,462 posts)
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 07:34 PM Jul 2018

Bob Woodward's new book puts readers 'face to face with Trump'

By Jamie Gangel and Dan Merica, CNN 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/07/30/politics/woodward-new-book-trump/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

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(CNN)Donald Trump is about to get the Bob Woodward treatment.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author will release "Fear" -- his first book on the Trump administration -- on September 11, 2018, just weeks before the midterm elections that could deliver a strong verdict on the President's first two years in office.

According to sources with knowledge of the book, "Fear" is based on hundreds of hours of taped interviews with first-hand sources and provides an in-depth, probing account of Trump's thoughts and decisions on everything from national security to the Russia investigation to the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. In addition to interviewing dozens of administration officials, the source said, Woodward was given memos, documents, diaries and notes, including some handwritten by the President.

"Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during a president's first years in office," one source said, adding that the book will take readers behind the scenes of the Trump White House with extensive in-the-room accounts of meetings with the President.

"It will give readers a front row seat to Trump and his time in the White House," said the source. "You are in the Oval office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence. You are face to face with Trump and the book documents detailed conversations, meetings, policy debates and critical decisions."

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Bob Woodward's new book puts readers 'face to face with Trump' (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2018 OP
Ew. No thanks. tanyev Jul 2018 #1
Yawn Me. Jul 2018 #2
I'll pass on this book ..... CatMor Jul 2018 #3
Another supplicating sycophantic screed like the one he did on GWBush* no doubt hlthe2b Jul 2018 #4
Reading that sounds like a terrible thing to put yourself through. Sugar Smack Jul 2018 #5
What a nauseating thought . . . hatrack Jul 2018 #6
Bob Woodward is still around and writing books? Glorfindel Jul 2018 #7

hlthe2b

(102,107 posts)
4. Another supplicating sycophantic screed like the one he did on GWBush* no doubt
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 07:52 PM
Jul 2018

Carl Bernstein, I still respect. Woodward, not so much.

Sugar Smack

(18,748 posts)
5. Reading that sounds like a terrible thing to put yourself through.
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 07:53 PM
Jul 2018

We're already privy to far too much of his so-called mind.

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