Fear

Trump in the White House

By: Bob Woodward

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

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“Explosive.”—The Washington Post

“Devastating.”—The New Yorker

“Unprecedented.”—CNN

“Great reporting...astute.”—Hugh Hewitt

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT

With authoritative reporting honed through nine presidencies, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies.

Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. Often with day-by-day details, dialogue and documentation, Fear tracks key foreign issues from North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, the Middle East, NATO, China and Russia. It reports in-depth on Trump’s key domestic issues particularly trade and tariff disputes, immigration, tax legislation, the Paris Climate Accord and the racial violence in Charlottesville in 2017.

Fear presents vivid details of the negotiations between Trump’s attorneys and Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia investigation, laying out for the first time the meeting-by-meeting discussions and strategies. It discloses how senior Trump White House officials joined together to steal draft orders from the president’s Oval Office desk so he would not issue directives that would jeopardize top secret intelligence operations.

“It was no less than an administrative coup d’état,” Woodward writes, “a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.”

Critic reviews

"With the steely, measured delivery of a seasoned newscaster, Robert Petkoff narrates an audiobook that truly lives up to its title. As he has done for decades since breaking the Watergate scandal, reporter Bob Woodward dissects the White House, in this case since the election of Donald Trump. The results are frightening. Using hundreds of hours of interviews with White House sources, notes from meetings, journals, and other available information, Woodward describes Trump as a man who refuses to read research before making major decisions and ignores and belittles the advice of experts, instead running the Oval Office on instinct and rash decisions. Woodward and Petkoff humanize other key members of the White House including embittered Chief of Staff John Kelly, erratic former Chief of Staff Steve Bannon, occasional voice of reason Ivanka Trump, and a host of others. It's a fascinating, often horrifying work of journalism."

Love the country not the party

I have followed Bob Woodward and read all his books he is honest and very well respected. Fear is truly what most of us in America knew that this White House and administration is doing and small part of us wished we were wrong. Wake up America before it’s too late. Love your country not your party.

An excellent book on a terrible subject

The most horrible thing this book does isn't pull back the curtain to show the man pretending to be Oz, the thing this book does is point out that the curtain was transparent all along.

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The president is transparently incapable of self reflection and incredibly stupid. He's a petty, self absorbed, self aggrandizing idiot with delusions of grandeur. Through his actions he has brought the US to the brink repeatedly, and it's only a matter of time before he goes too far too fast for someone with some sense to grab the wheel.

Good luck folks, we're going to need it.

Fear

Great book, Woodward comes through again , feel like I know the cast of characters a lot better now.

trump

I initially thought the book would just trash Trump. However , there were some pointed questions about James Comey's presentation of the dossier on Trump amorous affairs.
Next, you are who you hang with and it appears there are many with whom President Trump hung out that have their own personal agendas.
The shame of this whole situation is someone not having a healthy fear or respect of the office of the Presidency. President Trump has said none. Whenever I take a new job, even if know the job, there is a healthy fear. Healthy fear is mandatory for assessing a job and working in the job.
praying for our president.

amazing

listened twice. Woodward presents what should be absurdity in such a clinical manner, it's hard to dismiss