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Fear by Bob Woodward.*
Rage by Bob Woodward.*
Peril by Bob Woodward* with Robert Costa.
They document what Trump and right-wing Republicans did to our nation from 2015 through 2021. They're on my Christmas wish list.
This review in The Guardian explains why we need to read and remember what's in these books.
Written with Robert Costa, another Washington Post reporter, Peril caps a Trump trilogy by one half of the team that took down Richard Nixon. As was the case with Fear and Rage, Peril is meticulously researched. Quotes fly off the page.
The third book, just out, documents Trump's effort to overthrow the 2020 election, starting long before November, climaxing with the coup attempt on January 6, and continuing today.
It contains lots of behind-the-stage gossip, gleaned through hundreds of interviews.
Here's a tidbit from The Guardian's review:
“Do you know why [former secretary of state Rex] Tillerson was able to say he didn’t call the president a ‘moron’?” the Senate Republican leader [Mitch McConnell] asks.
“Because he called him a ‘fucking moron’.”
By contrast, McConnell has kind words for Biden – a man he is dedicated to rendering a one-term president. America’s cold civil war goes on. Some, sometimes, still send messages across no man’s land.
Buy Peril, the last in the series, now. Keep it on the shelf you have labeled for your survivors to read: "Keep. History as it was happening."
For further proof of the urgency of this trilogy, read On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. (See this review.)
Just hope that no future US government puts a ban on these books.
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*Footnote for those who didn't live through the Nixon years:
While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal.
As many news analysts have said in 2021, Trump makes Nixon look like a choir boy.
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