
But none of the previous books I’ve read about the White House under Donald Trump has dived so deeply into how policy is made (or unmade) there.

David Frum ( Trumpocracy) and David Cay Johnston ( It’s Even Worse Than You Think) have made especially useful contributions. Yes, others have written in a serious vein. Fear is far and away the most substantive of the nearly one dozen books I’ve read on Donald Trump’s presidency. But Woodward demonstrates his journalistic chops in this meticulously researched account.

It might seem that everything of note has already been said. Here comes Bob Woodward’s new book with the latest wrinkles in the tangled story of Donald Trump and his conduct in the White House.
