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    Rage
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    Audiobook13 hours

    Rage

    Written by Bob Woodward

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff

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    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 #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 combative interchange 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 struggled to 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 firsthand 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 another book. You’ll find I was right.”

    Includes excerpts from Bob Woodward’s interviews with President Donald J. Trump for Rage.

    Editor's Note

    Crucial portrait…

    In this follow-up to “Fear,” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Bob Woodward once again takes readers behind-the-scenes of the Trump administration. Painstaking research, unprecedented access to personal communications of those close to Trump, and interviews with the Commander in Chief himself make this a crucial portrait of one of our most polarizing presidents.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 15, 2020
    ISBN9781797113043
    Author

    Bob Woodward

    Bob Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked for more than 50 years. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his Watergate coverage and the other for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has authored 21 bestselling books, 15 of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers.

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    • 5/5
      Stunning! I knew Trump was grotesque, but this proves, in his own words, that Trump is an absolute psychopath! A true serial killer who is targeting his own followers at his rallies to unleashed his murderous lust on this country! He and his ignorant followers are traitors in every sense of the word!

      12 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Scribd is NOT supposed to be a biased platform that ALWAYS recommends biased books against Republicans and in favor of Democrats, what a DISGRACE, I am for LIBERTY and FREEDOM, it's fine that you want to create a pro-Democrat and anti-Republican reading platform, but OWN IT, stop pretending you're not BIASED.

      7 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      A masterpiece of journalism from a consummate professional about a complete buffoon.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Total buncombe. Woodward's book is a disgraceful screed, obviously written to pilfer the pockets of the sociopathic progressive Trump haters in the democratic party.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Would of preferred Woodward read it. Audio version is a great way to get across redundancy & stupidity of our President and how all he cares about is himself. Didn't like the title....Frustration would of been better.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Timely. Honest. Candid. Unbiased. Good context. Comparison to FDR and other presidential interviews was welcome perspective. I enjoyed the live interview coverage segment at the end. Impressive. Keep journaling!

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Wow I loved the actual taped conversations with Trump at the end. If nothing else listen to the prologue and epilogue.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      https://youtu.be/ZwSAjcfwyhU
      What a bunch of lies. They were stupid enough to spew their lies in a book and now April 2022 there was no collusion. Now we have pervert Biden as President and his crack pipe son causing war in Ukraine , but that shouldn’t give one the sense of RAGE....

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Eye opening. Worth a read by people of every political affiliation. I don’t want to get into my personal political views, suffice it to say that I have voted Republican my entire life. This book, written by an incredible reporter, is filled with quotes directly from the president and his advisers. It should be read by everyone before voting in the 2020 election.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Real facts!! Excellent book from Bob Woodward
      strongly recommended read before 2020 November 1st

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The amount of research and first hand accounts are astonishing! So impressive!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      The title is very demeaning, author is very disrespectful to the president.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The actual interviews are quite revealing about the character of Mr. Trump. Bob Woodward’s writing talent of chronicling events includes salient details that do not disappear in their complexity.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      It is fine, plus this reading person has clarity of diction.So it's good for listener ship for a listener.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Too bad that Republicans are not reading this book. Even if I were to send this to my friends they won’t read it.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Wow. Very detailed. 1 in 1000 books.
      He even got the President to sit for so many interviews. More impressive is how frank the President was.
      I appreciate most, his review of the fact as stated by the president vs his opinion. When stating his opinion, he would include “I think” or “in my experience” etc.
      it is appreciated to have the facts and the author’s opinion. Trust, it seems, so many authors give their opinions as facts.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I gained much insight into the Republican foreign policy and conservative viewpoints as well as into our president. The book seems more objective and fair than I expected.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent. Very enlightening and insightful. I recommend this one.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      No surprises here, Bob Woodward again shines a light on what we all need to know regardless of which way we lean left or right. It’s going to be a long hard road ahead God bless America.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This was...illuminating, at times, because I didn't know much of what was going on with his staff and advisors, and honestly, when my mental health is suffering, I avoided some of the news about him and definitely didn't know how serious and scary some situations were looking back. But I was also surprised as I read this to realize how numb and accepting I've become to how Trump is acting - I spent a lot of it going, meh, not surprised. It wasn't a hard to follow read, and the audio narration was decently done.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Provides an objective overview of the Trump white house and decision making process substantiated by recorded interviews with both sides of the story. No hidden agenda to sway your mind one way or the other, just facts chronicled to paint a true portrait.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Another fantastic Woodward book. Thank goodness for passionate, ethical journalism.
    • 5/5
      Amazing and shocking reporting from behind the scenes. A study in hubris powered by a complete lack of self-awareness. Glad I didn’t read it before the election; thankful it resulted in the subject of the book being defeated. Likely we will not ever know the depths of the malfeasance in that administration.
    • 4/5
      I like bob woodward books. i feel that he is fair, his style is what jornalism should be: informative and imparcial!
    • 5/5
      Great narrator, change voice for every character. Bob the writer is great compiling this book, it cracks me when trump s quotes come up. But listening to trump’s recording at the end, he is so annoying I want to stop playing, must took patience for Bob to complete this book and reveal Trump’s self centered mindset, incredible, I could put the book away, great book
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    • 4/5
      This book is okay. Essentially it’s just under 15 hours affirming what most of us already know: Donald Trump is utterly incapable of personal responsibility, and is also utterly incapable of competent governance in the face of crisis.
    • 5/5
      Brilliant book. Insightfull. Worth reading. Guessing if Donald Trump read it himself.

    • 2/5
      It actively spreads right-wing propaganda about the lockdown in Wuhan when it fits the author’s narrative to bash China. On 23-24 Jan, both domestic and international travel were closed in Wuhan (a simple Wikipedia search is not that hard), but the authors frequently cites the ridiculous claim that China intentionally lets people from Wuhan spread the virus to the world while only shuts down the domestic travel.

      As to the stories about Trump, the main character of the book, there is nothing really new, just plain and boring, I rarely agree with Trump, but this time he was right.
    • 4/5
      O melhor da série Trump.
      Fury, Fear, RAGE. Mais informações sobre a derradeira temporada de Trump na presidência.