Bob Woodward argues that Trump is 'far worse than Richard Nixon'
Over the past two weeks, headlines have trumpeted choice bits from Bob Woodward’s new book, “War”: How then President Donald Trump secretly sent Covid test machines to Russian President Vladimir Putin. How Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drives President Joe Biden to private, invective-fueled rages.
News articles frequently call these tasty bits “nuggets.” As a publicity strategy, they have worked wonders, turning the book into an event that demands attention. But reducing the book to scoops trivializes Woodward’s ambitions for this sprawling, occasionally blinkered but timely book. If the nuggets were the meal, then the headlines would make the book itself redundant.
“War” does not present a comprehensive view of the battles in Ukraine and the Middle East that partly inspire its title. Instead, this is Woodward’s attempt to establish what it means to be worthy of the great responsibility of running a great power. The reporting — and, yes, the nuggets — serves as a vehicle for Woodward’s judgments about the importance of character and teamwork in producing good government.
The book is also about more than foreign policy. The third war encompassed by Woodward’s title is the 2024 presidential election. How do three conflicts — two armed and another at the ballot box — become one singular “War?” What unites them in this book is the struggle between those who seek to wield power for a greater good — the Biden team, in Woodward’s view — and those who bend power to their own personal ends — Trump and Putin, especially.
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