![]() Woodward then switches to cover several public speeches Trump made soon after in order to contrast what he knew versus what Trump told to the public. The majority of his narrative construction is found in the prologue, where he starts with a very detailed vignette of the oval office meeting where Trump was first given the head’s up on the corona virus and meetings that followed. ![]() He does not resort to partisanship or gonzo self-involvement in order to deliver a gripping, integrated tale as Hunter Thompson* would. He leaves a lot to the reader, which is appropriate for a reporter. He is sparing with conjecture and weaves little of his own experiences or opinions in his reporting. Woodward is very organized, cogent and always clear in his recounting, but he is in this case not a natural story teller: in Rage, he does not spin a strong narrative. He’s written many books since then but I admit I was not paying more than cursory attention to politics until things got weird in the Tea Party era. His famous breakout, All the President’s Men, came out when I was too young to be reading political heavyweights (I was not yet in middle school). Bob Woodward is a legend, yet I had never read one of his books. ![]()
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