

So what profound insight did those conversations yield? With a title like “Rage,” you imagine King Lear-like diatribes against the Dems, or some Trumpian version of Nixon talking to the portraits, third martini spilling on the West Wing carpet.


Woodward is the town cardiologist, or at least carries himself as such. He has shared in two Pulitzers and written 21 books, virtually all of them about how power courses through Washington’s veins. We’ve now got enough crises to keep Beltway authors busy for a generation, though most of them will not be lucky enough to speak to the president 18 times, because they are not Bob Woodward, who - with his Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein - helped pave the way for Richard Nixon’s downfall.
