Fear: Trump in the White House
Written by Bob Woodward
Narrated by Robert Petkoff
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RUNAWAY #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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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.”
Editor's Note
New release…
Read the book that sparked an uproar and has everyone talking — including the president. Veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s new exposé takes readers behind-the-scenes at the White House for the inside story on President Trump.
Bob Woodward
DR BOB WOODWARD was born in 1947 in Gloucester, United Kingdom. Having studied at state and Steiner schools, he became a co-worker at the Sheiling School in Thornbury, a centre of the Camphill Community, based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). He remained within the Camphill Movement for some forty years, teaching children with special educational needs, retiring in 2012. He took a special interest in understanding autism in children and young people. At the age of 46, Bob received an MEd degree from Bristol University, followed by an MPhil at the age of 50 and a PhD from the University of the West of England at the age of 64. As well as being a qualified educator, he is a spiritual healer and the author of several books, including Knowledge of Spirit Worlds, Journeying Into Spirit Worlds and Karma in Human Life. He has been married for some 46 years and has five grown-up children and currently ten grandchildren.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All of this book simply reflects everything I already knew about the incompetence and out and out lack of honesty and integrity of Trump.
The complete lack of knowledge of basic business and the complete lack of knowledge about how the government is run.
His lying has always been public knowledge.14 people found this helpful
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5It is Crap. Based on fake news, and lies.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5More propaganda
Pass the koolaid if you are unable to think for yourself3 people found this helpful
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Every liberal whine you've previously heard, that's been stuck between two covers. Boring, and ignorant.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Speaks the hard truth. Both Democrats & Republicans could gain insight. Loved the ending; the last statement.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Meh.. it was ok. It’s good for what it is but I had to take many breaks from this book because it’s just like listening to the news all day long.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Still trying to process this one. In general, I thought it to be a good book. This is the first book that I have read/listened to from @realbobwoodward, so I don't have anything to compare it to. However, Mr. Woodward has a good, really easy going writing style that I appreciate. Definitely made the book easier to follow. The insight/information from the sources used (people, reports, etc) is fascinating. There were many times I made verbal comments such as, "Are you serious?!", or even "What the world?!" This is a really eye-opening book that gives a quick look behind the curtain of Trump's decision-making, his cabinet members (how/why he selects and fires people), his thought processes, his Twitter habits, and much more. I think the book ended rather abruptly, but conversely, I think I understand why. A story about a sitting president can only go so far. The narrative isn't complete. Whether a Trump fan it not, I do recommend this book. Sitting at 12 hours on audiobook, or 42 chapters for physical copy (the 47 noted in the pic includes the book dedication, and audiobook specific credits, etc), it's worth the investment time.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well written, well sourced, this book gives a harrowing glimpse into the mind and administration of the 45th President of the United States.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Very boring! Just more whining by liberals who make up their own facts and don't really care about the truth as long as it fits their narrative, all the sheeple swallow it hook line and sinker!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Do not listen to the reviews about this being fake. It is the beat insight to what happens in the White House. Credible sources and information. Worth every second
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Worth the read. I don't always agree with Woodward, but I do trust his reporting and confident that all his material is well researched.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While I don't always like the fact-based information Woodward writes, I do respect his ability to gather the necessary information to present an actual depiction of events. I trust his writing as honest, based on information he can prove and this book is probably the best I've read by him. It fills in a lot of small, and big, questions - about the dysfunctional POTUS we have, the destruction and dismantling of our government, a pursuit of imperial power and more. The things he writes about are sometimes tough because of the topic but his writing is easy to read. Do you want a king? If not, read this book, stand up and speak out!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent. Step into the chaos that has made us the bragging and clueless idiot at the international table. It’s a good thing that this is just “fake news”, otherwise millions of Americans will be armed with the reasons to Vote in 2020 in record turn out.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book on the inside of the White House! Great job Bob Woodward excellent reporting!,,
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It was an interesting book but at a certain became repetitive and a bit boring. I got tired of trying to understand all the craziness in the administration.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Made me realize he is human and way over his head with this job.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really incredible insight into the WH. Also one of the most terrifying books I’ve ever read.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Woodward’s book does a good job cutting through a lot of the Trump memes and myths that float around in the media to present a compelling narrative, giving us inside picture of who Trump really is what’s going on in his administration!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The authors' detailed and accurate accounts of conversations make this book an incredible yet painful read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5WHEW! Scarey stuff. But not for the believed obvious reasons.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Oh no! Politics, so much politics. Don't get involve in this. Well, its totally fearsome.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5How far the mighty have fallen. This journalist, is now nothing more than another paid shill for the most corrupt political party in American history. None of these once celebrated journalists, has revealed an ounce of journalistic integrity, when the country needed it the most. Spineless, lying, fraud. Terrible book, completely lopsided, sloppy, and dull. This obsession with Trump is mystifying. These are the same people who made “The Apprentice” the number one show on television, for years. They didn’t mention the “racism” then, did they? Nope. It’s shocking how low these people are willing to sink, to avoid their own shadows,
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5i like bod woodward style and the journalistic way he writes. great insight of the Trump presidency. I read it in a beat!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Interesting, I enjoyed listening to audio book during the evening.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The book reveals the real real real man in charge of the WH. Mr. Monster!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Most of the interesting bits of this book have already been revealed in news stories. The book confirms that Trump is a dumb, ignorant, narcissistic, arrogant and mean liar. We already knew that, but his followers don't seem to care. I doubt that this book will help much. When you populate each branch of the government with people who lack integrity, compassion and decency, the checks and balances system won't work. However, at least this author has better credentials and more credibility than others who have written about this chaotic presidency. His writing style is extremely dry.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very nicely written - 2 thumbs up. A must read book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Like the book. Gave me a new view of the white house and the president.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Needless to say The wring is magnificent and for any one with open mind it is a thought provoking book. From the of view of being an American and for the love of this country it is more important than being a Republican or Democrat.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This work is monumental in bringing to the reading public's attention a treasure trove of the facts, documents, recorded interviews, public statements of credible high ranking government officials, including senior White House staff, and uncontroverible news reports of actual events and background thereto. Woodward has succeeded in his attempt to very effectively do what he sees as his calling - in his own words, "My job is not to love or loathe people we're trying to explain and understand. It is to tell exactly what people have done, what it might mean, what drives them, and who they are."