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Fear: Trump in the White House
Fear: Trump in the White House
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2018-Oct-Nov-Dec
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September 4, 2018 (segment)
December 13, 2018

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Jack
Mar 08, 2019 rated it really liked it
Shelves: presidents, politics
Woodward writes interesting books about presidents, and as with all his books, that replay conversations he is rarely in the room for, one has to trust the accuracy of whoever is leaking to him. It's quite clear who some of these people are. And as with all legitimate reporting, we're left knowing that the president is ignorant of basic realities and emotionally immature in dealing with all serious matters. He also hires some really incompetent and immoral people. So it goes. I thought the book ...more
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Sandy
Sep 23, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: audiobooks, political, 2018
Standard Woodward fare... factual with no bells and whistles. The real deal. Woodward doesn't show partisanship - he backs up his statements with real-world facts: correspondence, writings, individual interviews, and people that were in the room at the time of a specific incident.

What is amazing to me - and scary - is that his aides, staff, his cabinet, and Congress seem to just let him do what he wants. They put no constraints on him. What they say behind his back should be said to his face. B ...more
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Laura
Dec 09, 2018 rated it really liked it
Yep...the Trump administration is as bad as you think it is.
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Linda
Dec 16, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: nonfiction, hardback, government, chcpl, politics, presidents, history, 2018
More a day-by-day accounting of the present White House. Abrupt ending. A little new.
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Virginia
Nov 24, 2018 rated it liked it
Shelves: politics
At some points reassuring, and at others terrifying.
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Oct 05, 2018 rated it it was amazing
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Dec 11, 2019 marked it as z_not-interested
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