Rage
By Bob Woodward

BOB WOODWARD'S NEW BOOK,and RAGE,and IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AND INTIMATE TOUR DE FORCE OF NEW REPORTING ON THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY FACING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, ECONOMIC DISASTER AND RACIAL UNREST.and Woodward, the No 1 internationaland bestselling author ofand Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that theand Covid-19 epidemicand would be theand biggest national security threatand to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Officeand 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.Inand 17 on-the-record interviewsand with Woodward over seven volatile months - an utterlyand vivid window into Trump's mindand - the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combativeand interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the 'dynamite behind every door'.and At key decision points,and Rageand 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,and Rageand reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggledand to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making.and Rageand 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 leaderand Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a 'fantasy film'.and 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 anotherand book. You'll find I was right.'