I found that I knew most of the content of this book. The parts of the book that were new I had heard about watching interviews of Woodward about the book.The book is well written and interesting. What I found most interesting were the remarks by General James Mattis. The section about the CoVid-19 virus has been well covered. Overall, it was worth the read just to provide an overview of the past 3 years. I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. The book was thirteen hours and ten mi...

New Bob Woodward book will include details of 25 personal letters between Trump and Kim Jong Un. Journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, his second on the Trump presidency, will include 25 personal letters exchanged between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un, according to details of the book revealed by publisher Simon & Schuster on Wednesday. The 25 letters obtained by Woodward have never been public, according to the Amazon description of the forthcoming book, titled “Rage.”Oh Dear. Not...

My biggest problem with Woodward's first book on Trump, Fear: Trump in the White House, was that though he attempted to be unbiased, he had a clear contempt for Trump and a lot of the people who worked for him, which bled through into the writing, and added a clear bias to it. This book is much better in that regard. Woodward is often bewildered by Trump's behavior and the things that he says, but he keeps the contempt that was so present in the last book out of it.I felt that the book was actua...

An automatic buy for me.An engrossing deep dive into the Presidency and mind of DJT.

This year -2020 - has turned me into a political junkie: books, TV, Radio, podcasts, and a little social media ....I haven’t been able to stay away. The ongoing devastations of this year changes people. So... I read another Trump book. Bob Woodward’s, RAGE, is comprehensive, and up-to-date.... ....a truthful unfolding on Trump’s Presidency. A very honorable book resulting from scrupulous journalistic ultracareful fastidious fact-checking. The November 3rd election is counting down— only 46 more

SPOILER ALERT: WORST PRESIDENT EVERBack when I was a younger man, protesting the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, there was no one on Earth I hated more than George W. Bush. These days, I would take him back in a heartbeat, but I guess I'll settle for Biden this fall instead. And I wonder why more Republicans don't agree, because there are ways in which the Obama administration made even Reagan's seem liberal by comparison. I guess it's like Chomsky said, how politics in this country is sort o...

As the author said in his epilogue:"But now, I’ve come to the conclusion that the “dynamite behind the door” was in plain sight. It was Trump himself. The oversized personality. The failure to organize. The lack of discipline. The lack of trust in others he had picked, in experts. The undermining or the attempted undermining of so many American institutions. The failure to be a calming, healing voice. The unwillingness to acknowledge error. The failure to do his homework. To extend the olive bra...

The immortality Trump is desperately searching for has already been created by wantonly helping to unleash a plague after nearly causing a WW3 style nuclear escalation that could have lead to a major war while downplaying racism, hate, and misogyny. Like a child, he can take no criticism, never finished the deviant phase. This is certainly psychologically fascinating, especially regarding the latent and clinical pathology, but shouldn´t there be any mechanisms to maybe make sure that the psyche...

How stupid can you get? Really! HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET?!?Imagine you are the President of the United States and you sit down with a journalist to give him interviews for a book—interviews that YOU WANTED and gave him permission to record!—and you keep telling this journalist how great you are and what a wonderful job you have done with whatever you touched, what do you expect this journalist to write?Do you really think that he will write how great you are and what a wonderful job you have done?...

Seriously, I am done with Trump tell-all books. Wait, Woodward is writing one more? Oh, well. Pre-ordered.Update: October 2nd 2020. Read it!Woodward is no longer only a reporter. He is so frustrated with the lack of plan that he tries to push Trump to have a plan and put some people in charge of the various parts of battle against the corona virus.The first chapters focuses on Tillerson and Mattis. Mattis pondering “if a war came and the best person was not in the chairmanship?” He is thinking a...

I have decided to embark on a mission to read a number of books on subjects that will be of great importance to the upcoming 2020 US Presidential Election. Many of these will focus on actors intricately involved in the process, in hopes that I can understand them better and, perhaps, educate others with the power to cast a ballot. I am, as always, open to serious recommendations from anyone who has a book I might like to include in the process. This is Book #32 in my 2020 US Election Preparation...

RageBy: Bob WoodwardNarrated by: Robert PetkoffWe all know just about everything about the large orange guy that lives in the White House. We know about his daily vomit of lies, tweet storms, his continual chest pounding and patting himself on the back. We know he loves his base, Proud Boys, nice fellows like the Nazis, and the white supremacist groups. He claims to love his trumpers too. He gave himself an A on his response on the pandemic he ignored but behind the scenes, what is really happen...

Yet another book confirming a vote for Trump makes you a bad American.

UPDATE:HEADLINEBIDEN BEATS TRUMPHarris Is First Woman Elected Vice PresidentAs it turned out, the coronavirus was Trump's kryptonite. There was some doubt before, but confirmation came on November 7, 2020 UPDATE:HEADLINESTrump Downplays Danger of Coronavirus as He Returns to White HouseDespite Growing West Wing Outbreak, Trump Says ‘Don’t Be Afraid’ of Virus*****This is not a book review, even though what I have written was inspired – or maybe I should say, provoked – by Bob Woodward’s book, "R...

We were speaking past each other, almost from different universes. Under normal circumstances, I would not subject myself to a single book about Donald Trump, much less two. But I happened to finish A Very Stable Genius—written by two of Woodward’s fellow reporters at the Washington Post—during one of the most bizarre weeks in Trump’s very bizarre presidency.The week began ordinarily enough, with the revelation in the New York Times that Trump was using his business failures to avoid taxes. B

[According to Jared Kushner] “In the beginning…20 percent of the people we had thought Trump was saving the world, and 80 percent thought they were saving the world from Trump. Now, I think we have the inverse. I think 80 percent of the people working for him think he’s saving the world, and 20 percent—maybe less now—think they’re saving the world from Trump.” Let that analysis sink in. Twenty percent of the president’s staff think they are “saving the world” from the president. -------------

I was not going to read this. Not another Trump book. Alas, my friends, I am weak. I won't get too much into the details, because, honestly, the book contains little that would surprise you at this point. What is astonishing, however, is that Trump allowed Woodward to record all the imbecilic, narcissistic things he said in all manner of crises. He made time to chat with a journalist for hours on end to pump up his ego, while a war with Iran was not out of the question, people were protesting ra...

Woodward concludes this book with one of the most obvious statements ever made: “Trump is the wrong man for the job.” James Mattis was warned by his 94 year old mother not to work for the horrible man. You should listen to your mother. This book spends a lot of time on North Korea and ends up with the COVID 19 crisis. A lot of time is also spent on Trump’s besotted son in law. Kushner is actually proud of the fact that “Trump did a full hostile takeover of the Republican Party”. Hostile takeover...

Re. Bob Woodward's book: RageMy personal review:1. It reads as scrupulously fair to President, Donald Trump. A very balanced read. If you want a highly-approachable, well-written narrative account of his presidency to date, then buy > read this book. I highly recommend it.2. I wasn't shocked by what I read. Indeed, the text contains nothing all that surprising (imho) to anyone who has followed US politics since 2016.3. The idea that this book will doom his chances of another presidential term, a...

Donald Trump has made an inordinate number of mistakes since assuming the presidency, however one of his most egregious was agreeing to an eighteen hour over nine session interview with author Bob Woodward. The Washington Post investigative reporter had previously written a chronicle of Trump’s first two years in office entitled, FEAR which was not very flattering toward the president. Trump, a firm believer in his own powers of persuasion was out of his league assuming if he developed a persona...