Rage
by Bob Woodward
View on GoodreadsThe second Woodward Trump book — built around 17 on-the-record interviews with Trump himself across 2019-2020, including the now-famous February 2020 admission that he was deliberately downplaying COVID's severity.
Core ideas
- The COVID admission ("I wanted to always play it down") is the book's defining revelation — captured on tape, held until the book's release in September 2020.
- The North Korea diplomacy material — Kim Jong Un's letters, the back-channel — is the book's primary-source set piece on foreign policy; Woodward reproduces the letters.
- The pattern across the interviews is consistent: a president unable to maintain a stable framing on any policy domain longer than a single answer, captured in his own voice.
Published2020
Pages475
ISBN9781982131739
ReadDec 2023
