Woodward ’s prejudices are clear. Of Trump, he “is not only the wrong man for the presidency, he is unfit to run the country.” For Putin, he quotes a CIA profile—“defined by his extreme insecurity and imperial ambition.” The book is 370 pages, plus sources notes and index, divided into no less than 77 chapters, a few as short as less than a page. But a different criticism has taken hold, that Woodward harmed public health and the national interest by failing to report on his conversations with Trump sooner. Ever since State of Denial, his third book about the George W. Bush administration, Woodward has fashioned himself as much an analyst of the presidency as a just-the-facts conduit of White House. The quotes from major players are what newspaper reporters on a breaking story can only dream of. “ War ,” Woodward’s new book on the inner workings of the Biden White House, is a worthy second draft, although his story should perhaps been better entitled “Wars” with an “s.”. Despite his fixation on substance, Woodward fails to answer—or even ask—some of the bigger questions about Biden’s foreign policy: Could he have done more to bolster Ukraine? Thanks to taped recordings of interviews Woodward conducted with the president in preparation for his latest book, “Rage,” the world has learned that President Donald Trump was well aware of. Legendary journalist Bob Woodward ’ s new book War , like so many of his books about the American presidency over the last half century, is generating headlines. And with “ State of Denial ,” some of Woodward’s most prominent critics have focused more on his style, and how this book is different from the last two, rather than consider what he has added to the public store of knowledge about how the Bush administration operates. The Road Critics Quotes Richard Woodward - previous novels Click the card to flip it 👆 his ‘previous novels have been marked by intense natural observation, a kind of morbid realism’. – Woodward writes that Biden’s national security team at one point believed there was a real threat, a 50% chance, that Putin would use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. – Biden said he “should never.
J.W. Woodward: What the Critics Are Saying
Woodward ’s prejudices are clear. Of Trump, he “is not only the wrong man for the presidency, he is unfit to run the country.” For Putin, he quotes a CIA profil...