DECEMBER 2022 - AudioFile
This audiobook is a collection of interviews conducted by WASHINGTON POST journalist Bob Woodward with Donald Trump throughout the past decade. As anyone who has heard Trump speak can attest, the former president can talk around a subject with the best of them, but this work puts that skill to the test. Woodward does not accept Trump's word salads as answers. Trump sounds typically brash and boastful, talking glibly about everything, often exaggerating or telling out-and-out untruths. When he does, Woodward corrects him, sometimes to his face, other times in notes to listeners. While Woodward speaks slowly and distinctly, age has clearly taken its toll, forcing him at times to e-nun-ci-ate every syllable. The work is a powerful statement about contemporary politics. M.S. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
From the Publisher
A passport to the heart of darkness. . . Disturbingly relevant.”—Lloyd Greene, The Guardian
“We finally got a Trump tell-all told by Donald Trump himself”—Jimmy Kimmel
"A window into Trump’s psyche"—Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project
“Incredible, especially hearing that type of immaturity in the voice of the man holding the office of the presidency.”—Sunny Hostin, The View
“Astonishing.” —Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC
“You’re in the room. . . This is Donald Trump unvarnished.”—Jamie Gangel, CNN
“A valuable resource for voters and historians alike.”—Peter Baker, The New York Times
NPR - Ron Elving
There is no question that hearing Trump has an impact that reading alone cannot match....?? Woodward is showing in his own way how difficult it is to do journalism and historiography at the same time....In a Morning Edition interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Woodward speaks of how "the power of the audio" brings home something disturbing about Trump. ‘His voice is so consumed with himself and how he feels and his conclusions.’"
DECEMBER 2022 - AudioFile
This audiobook is a collection of interviews conducted by WASHINGTON POST journalist Bob Woodward with Donald Trump throughout the past decade. As anyone who has heard Trump speak can attest, the former president can talk around a subject with the best of them, but this work puts that skill to the test. Woodward does not accept Trump's word salads as answers. Trump sounds typically brash and boastful, talking glibly about everything, often exaggerating or telling out-and-out untruths. When he does, Woodward corrects him, sometimes to his face, other times in notes to listeners. While Woodward speaks slowly and distinctly, age has clearly taken its toll, forcing him at times to e-nun-ci-ate every syllable. The work is a powerful statement about contemporary politics. M.S. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
