Borrowed this as an audio book for my trips to the Boston suburbs for tutoring, and I really liked it as an audio book. I read the book published immediately before this, "State of Denial," and now I kinda wish I had listened to it instead. Boyd Gaines is the actor who reads it, and he does a fantastic job. He has a nicely subtle way with voices and impressions, his Bush is excellent, his Rumsfeld is really good too. He doesn't overdo them, but he modulates his voice just enough to make the impression come across. Gaines really has his work cut out for him with a book like this, as it is pretty much constant dialogue, interviews and memories of meetings and parts of speeches.
In order to appreciate this as an audio book, I did need to accept the fact that my mind would wander at times. Probably part of the reason I could still enjoy it was that everything in this book happened relatively recently, so it wasn't all that difficult to figure out what was going on once I snapped back to paying attention. I do enjoy Woodward's books on the Bush presidency. Probably because they confirm my preconceived notion that Bush and his administration didn't know what they were doing and were constantly screwing up. Ironically, I think experiencing these books increases my sympathy with the Bush administration though. All the interviews remind one that these are real people, who really believed that they were doing the right thing and that history would vindicate them. It's so easy to treat Bush like this villain who only wanted to lie us into a war, and that really isn't fair. I think he did what he honestly thought were the right things to do. He just didn't do them very well, and I disagree about them being the right things.