Bob Woodward

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BOB WOODWARD'S NEW BOOK, RAGE, IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AND INTIMATE TOUR DE FORCE OF NEW REPORTING ON THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY FACING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, ECONOMIC DISASTER AND RACIAL UNREST.Woodward, the No 1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump's head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months - an utterly vivid window into Trump's mind - the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combativeinterchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the 'dynamite behind every door'.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.Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggledto keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making.Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with first-hand witnesses as well as participants' notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents.Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a 'fantasy film'.Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over Covid-19 and the economic calamity. 'Don't worry about it, Bob. Okay?' Trump told the author in July. 'Don't worry about it. We'll get to do anotherbook. You'll find I was right.'

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Bob Woodward retrata en este libro las enormes contradicciones, tensiones, debates secretos, desconfianzas y enormes dudas en la Administración Bush, en la última fase de su mandato, sobre la guerra en Irak. En estas páginas desgrana el espeso ambiente interno de desconfianza dentro del Gobierno norteamericano, que fue creciendo desde la escalada de máxima violencia en el 2006 hasta los estertores de la polémica presidencia Bush a mediados del 2008. En este periodo del conflicto iraquí, la Casa Blanca desarrolló una nueva estrategia secreta en la que fueron excluidos los jefes militares. El General George Casey, Comandante en Jefe de las fuerzas norteamericanas en Irak, estaba convencido de la incomprensión del presidente Bush acerca de la verdadera naturaleza del conflicto y de su profunda desconfianza sobre su mandato en la zona. La cúpula militar norteamericana también revisó secretamente su estrategia en la zona, convencidos de la falta de rumbo. En el punto más álgido del conflicto, los mandos militares llegaron a preocuparse por la posibilidad de ser acusados del fracaso en Irak. Durante meses, la revisión por la Casa Blanca de la estrategia en la zona de conflicto se mantuvo en el más absoluto secreto, condicionada por una opinión pública cada vez más hostil y temerosos

Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters, chronologies and meeting notes. It will focus on national security, especially the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the fight against terrorism. Woodward has structured the book to answer the questions: How does Obama govern? How and why does he decide? And how does he balance the numerous pressures of the modern presidency? Obama has learned that he is not commander-in-chief of the economy, and many of his high-profile reforms - such as health care, education and energy - have been turned over to Congress. But the president has realized he has almost total authority as commander-in-chief. Woodward thinks of the book as conceptually titled, The Crucible: Obama at War. Filled with intimate details and verbatim accounts that come from meticulous reporting, this is an unprecedented look at a young president in the 21st Century.

The most devastating political detective story of the century: the inside account of the two Washington Post reporters who broke the Watergate scandal, now with a 40th anniversary Afterword on the legacies of Watergate and Richard Nixon.This is the book that changed America. Published just months before President Nixons resignation, All the Presidents Men revealed the full scope of the scandal and introduced for the first time the mysterious Deep Throat. Beginning with the story of a simple burglary at Democratic headquarters and then continuing through headline after headline, Bernstein and Woodward deliver a riveting firsthand account of their reporting. Their explosive reports won a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post, toppled the president, and have since inspired generations of reporters.All the Presidents Men is a riveting detective story, capturing the exhilarating rush of the biggest presidential scandal in US history as it unfolded in real time. It is, as Time magazine wrote in their All-Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books list, "the work that brought down a presidency...perhaps the most influential piece of journalism in history."

11 septembre 2001, 8 h : George J. Tenet, directeur de la CIA, dérogeant à son rituel quotidien, ne prend pas son petit déjeuner avec le président Busch. Il rejoint son ami le sénateur démocrate Boren dans un hôtel de Manhattan et lui fait part une fois encore de ses inquiétudes concernant Ben Laden. À 9 h 15 : le World Trade Center est attaqué. 12 septembre 2001, 16 h : le dossier Iraq est déposé sur le bureau de Tenet et des conseillers à la défense du président George W. Bush. Fidèle à sa méthode journalistique, Bob Woodward nous entraîne dans les coulisses du pouvoir, au cœur même de l'action. Avec lui, nous entrons dans le Bureau ovale d'où l'on suivra, heure par heure, la mise en place de l'implacable machine de guerre américaine contre le terrorisme, de l'Afghanistan à l'Iraq. Entretiens exclusifs, actions diplomatiques et opérations secrètes de la CIA, Woodward tisse, avec ce document exceptionnel, le récit haletant et inquiétant de l'offensive de l'administration Bush.

Fondé sur de nombreux entretiens exclusifs au Pentagone, à la CIA et à la NSA, ainsi qu'avec George Bush lui-même et son entourage, s'appuyant sur un magistral travail d'enquête, Plan d'attaque dévoile la face cachée du conflit en Irak. Guerre secrète, diplomatie parallèle, Bob Woodward dévoile les raisons et les manœuvres, apparentes ou occultes, qui ont conduit à l'offensive contre Saddam Hussein. Il en explore les causes et les conséquences, démontrant froidement le savoir-faire des uns, la stupéfiante légèreté des autres, les antagonismes de personnes, la guerre impitoyable entre les différents services de l'État, sans oublier ce qui se passe réellement sur le terrain. Exposant les violentes tensions qui, heure par heure, agitent le camp des « alliés » divisés, il livre le récit haletant et inquiétant des réussites, erreurs et lacunes de ceux qui sont à l'origine de l'une des guerres les plus controversées de ces dernières années. Un document exceptionnel.

In "Obama's Wars," Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism. At the core of Obama's Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and the United States military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an exit plan for the Afghanistan War. "So what's my option?" the president asked his war cabinet, seeking alternatives to the Afghanistan commander's request for 40,000 more troops in late 2009. "You have essentially given me one option. ...It's unacceptable." "Well," Secretary of Defense Robert Gates finally said, "Mr. President, I think we owe you that option." It never came. An untamed Vice President Joe Biden pushes relentlessly to limit the military mission and avoid another Vietnam. The vice president frantically sent half a dozen handwritten memos by secure fax to Obama on the eve of the final troop decision. President Obama's ordering a surge of 30,000 troops and pledging to start withdrawing U.S. forces by July 2011 did not end the skirmishing. General David Petraeus, the new Afghanistan commander, thinks time can be added to the clock if he shows progress. "I don't think you win this war," Petraeus said privately. "This is the kind of fight we're in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids' lives." Hovering over this debate is the possibility of another terrorist attack in the United States. The White House led a secret exercise showing how unprepared the government is if terrorists set off a nuclear bomb in an American city--which Obama told Woodward is at the top of the list of what he worries about all the time. Verbatim quotes from secret debates and White House strategy sessions--and firsthand accounts of the thoughts and concerns of the president, his war council and his generals--reveal a government in conflict, often consumed with nasty infighting and fundamental disputes. Woodward has discovered how the Obama White House really works, showing that even more tough decisions lie ahead for the cerebral and engaged president. "Obama's Wars" offers the reader a stunning, you-are-there account of the president, his White House aides, military leaders, diplomats and intelligence chiefs in this time of turmoil and danger.

In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism. At the core of Obama's Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and the United States military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an exit plan for the Afghanistan War.

In his unmissable new book Bob Woodward takes the reader on an inside journey from the start of the Iraq War in 2003 right up to the present day, providing a detailed, authoritative account of President Bush's leadership and the struggles among the men and women in the White House, the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department. With Bush well into his second term, Woodward breaks new ground, as he has in his thirteen previous international bestsellers, including BUSH AT WAR and PLAN OF ATTACK. Woodward puts the Bush legacy in historical context as he shows this presidency in action in a way that is normally seen only years after a chief executive leaves office. He describes how Bush and his team have attempted to change the way that wars are fought, and put together a re-election campaign while re-inventing their strategy for the invasion and occupation of Iraq over and over again. Here is the behind-the-scenes story of this administration -- meetings, conversations, and memos; conflicts, manoeuvring, and anguish -- as key administration figures provide a full view of the first presidency of the twenty-first century.

LA HISTORIA DEL PRESIDENTE TRUMP COMO SOLO BOB WOODWARD PODÍA CONTARLACon la autoridad de haber informado a lo largo de ocho presidencias, desde Nixon hasta Obama, Bob Woodward revela con un detalle sin precedentes la horrible verdad del día a día en la Casa Blanca del presidente Donald Trump, precisando cómo es su toma de decisiones en las principales políticas internas y exteriores. Woodward analiza cientos de horas de entrevistas a fuentes de primera mano, notas de reuniones, diarios personales, archivos y documentos. El libro hace especial hincapié en los polémicos debates y en las decisiones que se toman en el despacho oval, la sala de situaciones, el Air Force One y en la residencia oficial de La Casa Blanca.Miedo es el retrato más íntimo sobre un presidente en activo jamás publicado anteriormente durante sus primeros años en la Casa Blanca. Descripción / Resumen (Español / Castellano):«Explosivo.» - The Washington Post«Devastador.» - The New Yorker«Sin precedentes.» - CNNLa historia del presidente Trump como solo Bob Woodward podía contarla.Con la autoridad de haber informado a lo largo de ocho presidencias, desde Nixon hasta Obama, Bob Woodward revela con un detalle sin precedentes la horrible verdad del día a día en la Casa Blanca del presidente Donald Trump, precisando cómo es su toma de decisiones en las principales políticas internas y exteriores. Woodward analiza cientos de horas de entrevistas a fuentes de primera mano, notas de reuniones, diarios personales, archivos y documentos. El libro hace especial hincapié en los polémicos debates y en las decisiones que se toman en el despacho oval, la sala de situaciones, el Air Force One y en la residencia oficial de La Casa Blanca.Miedo es el retrato más íntimo sobre un presidente en activo jamás publicado anteriormente durante sus primeros años en la Casa Blanca.«Woodward describe la Casa Blanca de Trump como una operación bizantina, traicionera y fuera de control.» Mark Landler y Maggie Haberman, New York Times«Un informe devastador sobre la presidencia de Trump que será consultado durante muchos años. Lo que Woodward ha escrito no es tan solo la historia de un presidente profundamente cuestionado, sino también un relato alrededor de aquellos que le apoyaron y eligieron.» Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker