Rage By Bob Woodward

Rage By Bob Woodward Details

Woodward, the No 1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment 
the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. 
In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump's head pops up when he is told in January 2020 
that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.

In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months - an utterly vivid window into Trump's mind - the 
president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of 
doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the 'dynamite behind every door'. 
At key decision points, Rage shows how Trump's responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and 
style he developed during his first three years as president.

Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of 
State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggled to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making. Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with first-hand witnesses as well as participants' notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents.

Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a 'fantasy film'. Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over 
Covid-19 and the economic calamity. 'Don't worry about it, Bob. Okay?' Trump told the author in July. 'Don't worry about 
it. We'll get to do another book. You'll find I was right.'