From the inside flap
“With its authoritative reporting honed
through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, 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.
“Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of
interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and
documents. Often with day-to-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 critical intelligence operations.
“ ‘It was no less than an admiration coup d’etat,’
Woodward writes. “ ‘a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most
powerful country in the world.’”
Review
Fear is a fast-moving, easy-to-follow and fair (in its journalistic objective and
source-true way) read about the controversial US president’s first year or so
in office. Its last few pages may prove to be a tough assessment for
oversensitive Trump supporters, but its fact-based conclusion (further
implicated by one of Trump’s allies and ex-lawyers, John Dowd). Excellent,
balanced and should-read nonfiction for those who are interested in Trump’s
off-the-cuff politics and actions.
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