It is an essential document for anyone seeking an accurate inside view of the Trump years - volatile and vivid. Rage will be the foundational account of the Trump presidency, its turmoil, contradictions and risks. Kim describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a ‘fantasy film’, as the two leaders engage in an extraordinary diplomatic minuet. For Rage, the Watergate and Washington Post veteran spoke to the president for hours on record. Woodward obtained 25 personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that have not been public before. Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with first-hand witnesses, as well as participants’ notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents.

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. President Donald Trump’s former top Cabinet officials are among his harshest critics in journalist Bob Woodard’s new book Rage, providing some of the most brutal assessments of the commander. What is not known is that Trump provided Woodward a window into his mind through a series of exclusive interviews. President Trump has said publicly that Woodward has interviewed him.

Woodward, the No 1 internationally bestselling author of 13 No 1 bestsellers, including Fear: Trump in the White House, shows Trump up close in his entirety before the 2020 presidential election. Rage goes behind the scenes like never before, with stunning new details about early national security decisions and operations and Trump’s moves as he faces a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. An essential account of a chaotic administration that, Woodward makes painfully clear, is incapable of governing.Kirkus Reviews, starred review Arguably the most important journalist of the past 50 years, and we all owe him a huge debt of gratitude.

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