Bob Woodward
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With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the...
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"This book examines the struggle between President Obama and the United States Congress to manage federal spending and tax policy for the three and one half years between 2009 and the summer of 2012. More than half the book focuses on the intense 44-day crisis in June and July 2011 when the United States came to the brink of a potentially catastrophic default on its debt."--Note to readers.
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[2004]
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Account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three and a half hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush.
4) Obama's wars
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[2010]
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Woodward shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
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2000
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"In Maestro, Bob Woodward uses his interviewing and research techniques to take you inside the Fed and Greenspan's thinking. We listen to the Fed's internal debates as the American economy is pushed into a historic 10-year expansion while the world economy lurches from financial crisis to financial crisis. Greenspan plays a sometimes subtle, sometimes blunt behind-the-scenes role. He appears in Maestro up close as never before - alternatively nervous...
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[2006]
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A secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006 forecasted a more violent 2007 in Iraq, contradicting the repeated optimistic statements of President Bush. This book examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. In this detailed inside story of a war-torn White House, Woodward answers the core questions: What happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why?...
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2015.
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Woodward reveals the story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and libraries, Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixon's secrets, obsessions and deceptions.
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[1994]
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"Working behind the scenes for the 18 months following Bill Clinton's election, Bob Woodward has discovered how the Clinton White House really works.--He offers one of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published--."Jacket.
Surveys the early Clinton presidency.
12) The Commanders
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[1991]
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The behind-the-scenes story of how President Bush and his military high command made their decisions.
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[2008]
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In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward describes the period between 2006, when the failure of the Iraq strategy became apparent, through the decisions to send more troops in 2007, to mid-2008, when the war became a major decision point in the presidential election.
15) Rage
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An essential account of the Trump presidency draws on interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, diaries, and confidential documents to provide details about Trump's moves as he faced a global pandemic, economic disaster, and racial unrest.
16) Peril
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c2021.
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Bob Woodward and Robert Costa cover the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden presidency.
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2018.
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Con esa forma de comunicar tan autoritaria, perfeccionada durante ocho presidencias desde Nixon a Obama, el autor Bob Woodward revela con una minuciosidad sin precedentes la tormentosa vida del presidente Donald Trump dentro de la Casa Blanca, asi como los detalles intrinsecos sobre la toma de importantes decisiones en politica nacional e internacional. Miedo es el retrato mas intimo que se haya publicado sobre un presidente en el poder durante su...
20) The choice
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c1996
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Tells the personal and political story of how President Bill Clinton and former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole prepared themselves to battle for the 1996 presidential election, reporting on their decisions, conversations, disappointments and triumphs during two years of campaigning.