CNN Exclusive: Details, title and cover revealed for Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book about Trump

08/13/2020 USA


Following on from his best-selling 2018 book “Fear”, legendary investigative journalist Bob Woodward’s new book about President Donald Trump – titled “Rage” – will have wonderful details about the president’s behavior and decision-making, according to sources familiar with the book.

Woodward, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for his behind-the-scenes coverage and unusual access, but his second book on Trump promises to bring readers inside the Oval Office like never before. According to several sources, the book contains explosive accounts of Trump’s thoughts and actions on national security, the coronavirus pandemic, the economic collapse and the Black Lives Matter protests.

“Rage” is scheduled for release on September 15.

Jonathan Karp, CEO of publisher Simon & Schuster of Woodward, also published the tell-all bestsellers about Trump that were released earlier this year by former National Security Adviser John Bolton and Trump’s cousin Mary Trump. He told CNN, “‘Rage’ is the most important book that Simon & Schuster will publish this year. Every voter should read it by November 3rd.”

In January, Trump revealed that he was sitting down with Woodward for the upcoming book, which came as a surprise after he was harshly critical of “Fear.” Woodward had offered Trump several times the chance to be interviewed for that book, but Trump pretended he had never received the requests.

According to several sources familiar with the book, Woodward conducted more than a dozen interviews with Trump for “Rage” in the White House, Mar-a-Lago and over the phone.

Woodward is known to record all of his interviews with permission from his subjects and sources. CNN has learned that Woodward conducted hundreds of hours of interviews with other first-hand witnesses, and according to his publisher, received “notes, emails, diaries, calendars, and confidential documents,” including 25 personal letters between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

In 2019, White House officials were quoted by The Washington Post as calling the Trump-Kim correspondence “love letters” – and sources familiar with the book say the letters are “extraordinary.” According to Simon & Schuster, in one letter “Kim describes the bond between the two leaders as from a ‘fantasy movie’.”

In a statement, Simon & Schuster said the book would be a “fleeting and vivid” view of the “unrest, contradictions and risks” of the Trump presidency.

CNN has learned that “Rage” also reveals Trump’s blunt opinions of former presidents and whether he thinks he will win re-election in November.

The title of the book comes from a quote during an interview Trump did with Woodward and Washington Post reporter Robert Costa in March 2016 about the campaign track.

“I bring out anger,” Trump told Woodward and Costa. “I bring out anger. I always have it. I do not know if that is a pledge or an obligation, but whatever it is, I do.”

That same 2016 interview inspired the title “Fear” for Woodward’s 2018 book, when Trump said that “real power is, I don’t even want to use the word, scared.”

Woodward’s first book on Trump made headlines detailing the extraordinary measures taken by those in his inner circle to prevent him from acting on what they saw as his most dangerous impulses. In it, then-Chief of Staff John Kelly was quoted as calling the White House “crazytown,” and then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis said the president had the notion of “a fifth or sixth class,” and his former personal lawyer John Dowd is quoted as calling Trump a “liar” and tells the president that he could not be interviewed by special adviser Robert Mueller, or he would end up in an “orange jumpsuit.”

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