THE BIGGEST REVELATIONS: PERIL By Bob Woodward & Robert Costa

by TBR Guide

This is a summary. The actual book can be found here.

13 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 23, 2021

Reviews

[Connie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I appreciated the comments of how the world was afraid right after the January 6 insurrection. It showed how the world takes comfort in the knowledge the US is stable and competent. This call between China and Gen Miley to allay their anxiety was reassuring. There were stable level headed people looking out for all of us and for the world.

The book did jump back and forth but in the style that is common today in books and on tv, i. e. Present, past, present, past, present.

It was a good reflection on this tumultuous time in the White House and during the pandemic.

And it certainly showed how unfit for office Trump was. His inability to keep high level staff certainly showed that no one could tolerate his behavior for long.

[Juan Rivera · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just last year I felt fear, dread for what might happen in the world. Having been an admirer of democracy in the United States and of the country as an economic powerhouse, a year ago it seemed like a banana country, on the verge of falling into the dictatorship of a psychopathic narcissist, as I believe Trump is.

Excellent reliving history with the book "Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.

Did you know that the army chief of staff had to take control of the situation and speak with the Chinese chief general to avoid a possible war, as the Chinese thought that Trump was going to launch an attack just to stay in power ( I thought I would too). Trump never found out, they had to treat him like a tantrum child. The concern was such that Nancy Pelosi had to talk to the army and check what were the precautions so that Trump did not start a war.

Even today when they talk to Trump she says he won the election.

The problem is that he follows a latent danger, and if he arrives again he will take revenge and probably destroy the institutions of the United States. So it was with Hitler.

The book also talks about Biden, who has not had the best results, especially on the issue of the army's departure from Afghanistan.

This book is highly updated and recommended.

[Gary Knapton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very accessible page-turner from very experienced Beltway journalists. It can't be easy to explain US high politics to a British reader, to give it a dramatic narrative feel in what is usually a mundane and arcane and abstract industry here in the UK. I often think London does in one paper (The Economist) what the US does in two (The National Review, The Washington Post) but this book might give British readers a genuine appreciation of the lofty ambitions of the Constitutional project in a very admirable way. The US project is still in its infancy, to us. The stakes are high and this is happening right now. The 2022 mid-term results, social media and the 25th Amendment may or may not inform what happens next. It's pretty riveting. I loved it.

[Julia Morrell · Rating 4 out of 5]

So Scary

[Tom McGonis]

ok. Knew most everything.

[Susie James · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got a copy of Bob Woodward's "Peril" at Walmart quite a while ago. While I don't agree that the balanced view of Donald Trump's time in the White House -- with all the obvious Machiavellian attacks on him personally and his administration -- I was somewhat enlightened as to what was going on January 6 involving the reconciliation of who won that election and the process Trump felt Pence absolutely under the LAW could have followed. I did appreciate that. I did and still discern a basic truth that Woodward and company ignored or neglected in all of his journalistic spiel. Tell us about the Pelosi gang and how they vowed to do what they could get away with and DID, against the President.

[Sheri Murphy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an interesting book, helped me understand more thoroughly the workings of the presidency and that of congress. It also brings to light how unfit Trump was to lead our country.