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Peril was the last of a trilogy about the Trump administration by veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward, and this book written with Washington Post reporter Robert Costa. While I was not going to read any more books about this dangerous aberration in our history, I could not resist the temptation of Woodward's reporting on deep background of what was really happening. What can I say, what we saw from the news reports over the last year of Trump's time in office and his attempts to hold on
Bloated and unnecessarily long winded post the Jan 6th debacle.This is okay leading up to the Jan 6th insurrection. At the same time besides the bit in the beginning about Milley contacting the Chinese regarding fears of a wag the dog scenario, most of this information has been covered in some depth by previous books that have covered the end of chumps presidency and its implosion at the end.Most of the unique info this book offers has already been an expose on various news programs, newspaper &...
Woodward’s and Costa’s excellent research focusing on the tumultuous election year of 2020 and the transition from the Trump presidency to that of Biden points out how dangerous it was for our democracy. It was worse than I thought. The drip, drip, drip of daily news reporting tends to minimize the importance of key events—so Woodward’s and Costa’s interviews with key administration officials and military leaders provide powerful insight into just how vulnerable our democracy was on January 6th—...
As has been the case with most of the books published about the Trump era, Peril was immediately met with immediate media attention and praise. After all, one of the book’s authors is the esteemed Washington Post editor,Bob Woodward, who became famous for breaking the Watergate scandal when he was a reporter back in the 1970s. His co-author is the talented, politically savvyRobert Costa who currently is currently a reporter for the Post and an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. They had tons of hel...
Good god.Knowing that someone in our government produced a document to justify overturning the 2020 election is terrifying. This country better wake the F up. We ousted a King to become the United States of America. If Kevin McCarthy was Speaker on Jan 6th, 2021, he would've taken this country right back where we started.Oh . . . And here's an idea: If you're looking for something to replace those traitorous Confederate General statues with, General Milley wouldn't be a bad choice.
Well worth reading by anyone who considers themselves stakeholders in our democracy. I know that we are always swimming through history, but I never particularly wanted to experience history this blood-chilling. Absent a few principled people, 2020-2021 might have marked the end of our republic. We cannot risk that happening again. We need to implement safeguards against law-breaking and bad behavior on this scale.
I had heard parts and parcels of this book on various news networks. Heard and watched the author interviews. This book covers the end of the Mango Mussolini's term and the beginning of Bidens. The insurrection and what was happening in the White House. Sounded intriguing but also frightening. I had promised myself that I would not buy another book about the narcissistic man child and I didn't. This book was given to my husband by a friend if his and after having it's cover stare at me, I picked...
Milley believed January 6 was a planned, coordinated, synchronized attack on the very heart of American democracy, designed to overthrow the government to prevent the constitutional certification of a legitimate election won by Joe Biden. -------------------------------------- Milley summarized and scribbled. “Big Threat: domestic terrorism.” Some were the new Brown Shirts, a U.S. version, Milley concluded, of the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party that supported Hitler. It was a planned r
The unhinged president was raging like a character from Full Metal Jacket and world leaders had to be reassured by our military leaders that the country was not imploding. That is just a little of what happened after the 2020 election and the January 6th riot by Trump supporters. This book covers the primary campaigns, the election and it’s aftermath, Trump’s response to the Black Lives Matter protests, the last days of the Trump administration, the early days of the Biden administration and Tru...
“Real power is—I don’t even want to use the word—fear,” Trump told us. “I bring rage out. I do bring rage out. I always have. I don’t know if that’s an asset or a liability, but whatever it is, I do.”― Bob Woodward, PerilPLEASE -- if you are a Trump fan and do not like reading rough critiques of him -- you might want to skip this one.My review:You bet Trump brings rage out.I hadn't intended on reading this because I read so many books about politics and am burnt out on them. I figured I'd give i...
Bob Woodward books to me are like big bags of potato chips. I can't resist them, I can finish them off in a few sittings, they're satisfying in the moment, and once opened, they have a short shelf life so are better enjoyed while fresh - you can't pull them off your shelf in a year or two and expect them to be anywhere near as good. As a result, I avoid buying potato chips altogether, otherwise I will binge on them. I lack such self control when it comes to Bob Woodward books. Fear and Rage took...
At this time of year, I often enjoy various scary tomes to put me in the Halloween spirit. Little did I realize that PERIL had a horror story of its own to tell. If you don’t believe me, read through the section that opens the book. It details the steps the US military high echelon was willing to take to make certain that an emotionally out-of-control President didn’t “play the nuclear card.” Chilling, indeed. True confessions: My political party affiliation is Independent. I was not particularl...
This three book series about the presidency of Trump was phenomenal. And this final one was on par with the others. Since it was taken from hundreds of interviews from those inside the administration it was a fascinating behind the scenes look. Because every time a politician breathes they simultaneously spew some sort of lie, this series was able to give a different perspective. Lots of this book revolved around Lindsey Graham’s interview (arguably Trump’s closest political friend in his admini...
If you’re looking for the gold standard in Trump books, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s “Peril” is it. I’m not saying that because it was written by Bob Woodward (I thought his two previous books about the Trump administration were “okay, not great”). It’s good because of what Woodward and Costa cover in their book. Everything from Covid, the election, the riots of January 6, and past few months.As per usual in a Bob Woodward book, the topic - Donald Trump’s final year in office - was thoroughly...
Wowza. Just...wowza.While reading this, all I kept thinking was, "This is the craziest shit I've ever read in my life." After which I had to remind myself repeatedly, THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. It almost seems like a feverish dream, some distant repressed memory. It SEEMS like fiction, but then you realize it's so bizarre that not even the most imaginative author could come up with this shit. Reading this is no different than reading your favourite thriller. It's written like a thriller, with short...
In reviewing another of the recent Trump books, I compared my Trump reading to an obsessive, examining the Zapruder film, frame by frame. And the more I think about it, the more apt the analogy feels. Not merely for insight into my own frame of mind, but for the insecurity people were feeling about our institutions of government at that turbulent time. The Kennedy assassination was a national trauma that is still being felt nearly 60 years later. I believe the Trump years, concluding with the ev...
Oh, boy....Though little in it is surprising, it still has the ability to unsettle and disturb. I read this in conjunction with watching the Netflix series, "The Comey Rule" (based on his book, "A Higher Loyalty", of which I was admittedly critical), and am left with profound relief that our president now is Joe Biden, and not that selfish, vain and dangerous man, who haunted many of us for the better part of five years. If you want to know the details behind the election year, as well as much m...
Anyone who knows me has come to realise that I live for a great political book, be it fiction or not. Anything to do with Trump, while likely non-fiction (as long as it has not been penned by one of his sycophants), has aspects that leave the reader unsure if it has to be fictional, primarily because the truths are usually so far-fetched. Bob Woodward and Robert Costa have crafted a sensational look into the end days of the Trump White House and beginning of the Biden Administration. Working wit...
Yikes. The election and everything leading up to Jan 6th is SO. MUCH. WORSE. than it looked like just watching it all unfold on the news.
I found this to be mesmerizing. I don't often look too closely at our so-called democratic republic in action because I find it too infuriating--and disheartening--but this did not disappoint me. I listened on audio and my attention never wavered. I appreciated the behind the scenes view on a troubling time in our country. I wish I could say we are on the mend and on to better times, but I remain cautious and skeptical.