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A review by tagoreketabkhane31
Rage by Bob Woodward
4.0
Rage, a follow up on the Trump Presidency from Woodward’s book “Fear”, follows the President mostly from his coverage and overseeing the COVID-19 Pandemic up until the initial end of the lockdown procedures in the USA, with 17 interviews conducted with the President to have him on record for his book.
Much like the speech patterns of President Trump, the book is slightly disjointed, with it starting with the shuffle that came from the Trump cabinet - focusing initially on Secretaries Mattis and Tillerson, and DNI Coats, along with mild coverage of the impeachment and the Mueller Report. I almost question if Woodward himself changed the topic of his book a third of the way in because of COVID-19.
While I personally believe that Woodward has a bit of hero worship when it comes to Secretary Mattis (and indeed, I think many Dems and independents who would otherwise be more critical of the Secretary during and post his tenure at the DoD), as a book of recent history, it is fascinating to align the interviews thatWoodward was conducting with the President and with how the populace was faring with the pandemic.
Much like the speech patterns of President Trump, the book is slightly disjointed, with it starting with the shuffle that came from the Trump cabinet - focusing initially on Secretaries Mattis and Tillerson, and DNI Coats, along with mild coverage of the impeachment and the Mueller Report. I almost question if Woodward himself changed the topic of his book a third of the way in because of COVID-19.
While I personally believe that Woodward has a bit of hero worship when it comes to Secretary Mattis (and indeed, I think many Dems and independents who would otherwise be more critical of the Secretary during and post his tenure at the DoD), as a book of recent history, it is fascinating to align the interviews thatWoodward was conducting with the President and with how the populace was faring with the pandemic.