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  • Fear

  • Trump in the White House
  • By: Bob Woodward
  • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
  • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,707 ratings)
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Fear

By: Bob Woodward
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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Summary

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

THE OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR

'I think you’ve always been fair.' President Donald J. Trump, in a call to Bob Woodward, August 14, 2018

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

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, 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. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. 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.

Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office.

©2018 Bob Woodward (P)2018 Simon & Schuster UK

Critic reviews

"Fear is a meticulously researched account of a White House and a president in financial, legal and personal disorder...essential reading." (Daily Mail)

"The sheer weight of anecdotes depicts a man with no empathy and a pathological capacity for lying.' (The Financial Times)

"Fuelling his narrative is an astonishing cast of rogues, ideologues, self-made millionaires and men in uniform who have spent the past two years in and out of Trump's administration." (The Sunday Times)

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A sobering insight

Woodward’s Fear gives rich depth to the colour provided by Michael Wolff’s Siege. Fear is perhaps the more informed narrative, stories are clearly extensively sourced and corroborated. There is the same extensive use of dialogue to bring life to some of the more alarming episodes and exchanges between Trump and his key advisors.
Fear seems particularly well sourced on defence and security and the chapters dealing with Trump’s approach to North Korea are both fascinating and slightly terrifying.
It’s here that the book does adopt that darker approach which makes it distinctive from Siege and typically Woodward.
At the same time Woodward does not lack anecdotes on Trump’s personal behaviour; a man obsessed with TV and Twitter, inept and volatile in equal measure and whose only real satisfaction is to bask in the blind loyalty of unwavering supporters.

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This one will require a follow up

Not quite as entertaining as Fire & Fury, but clearly the author had excellent access and firms up the obvious: utter incompetence of the WH and its leader. I hope Woodward is preparing a Part II for the rest of the president’s term.

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Detailed. Scary. Believable. Brilliantly written .

Woodward has put together a frightening picture of a man vastly out of his depth with the job of President. Regardless of your opinion of the man, if this book is to be believed, then he should not be President.. For many reasons.

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Portrait of a lunatic

Proper, seemingly balanced journalism with tonnes of detail that gives horrifying insight into the chaos but also gives a view of Trump that surprised me in that there are areas that he has some principles.
Great listen

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Enlightening and insightful

This is one hell of an inside track on the chaos and disorder that is only hinted at on unofficial levels. Depressingly this book corroborates those fears. Fear being the operative word. Great journalism and no fake news here!

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narration was excellent.

Good listening, amazing incite. helped by amazing narration. worth the buy. 4out of 5 stars.

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Even handed summary of the facts.

Oration good. Very interesting. Bob Muller doesnt vome out well, in my opinion. Liked it. wont relisten.

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Compelling.

Bob Woodward takes us behind the veil into the madhouse that is currently 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Engrossing and well narrated.

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must have

a clear and precise account of the madness in the white house, a must read for anyone.

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Gripping

incredible story from Bob Woodward highlighting the carnage, chaos and incredible day to day existence of the Trump White House. Adds to the many great accounts such as James Comey and makes you realise how crazy it is behind the curtain!

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