6, and its primary concern is how President Trump behaved in the lead-up to and the aftermath of that crisis.īooks in this genre like to make news, and this one doesn’t waste any time. But while it covers the 2020 campaign season and the course of the pandemic and the protests after George Floyd’s murder and the opening months of Joseph Biden’s presidency, the book’s centerpiece is the riot at the Capitol on Jan. Broken up into 72 short chapters, it hurtles through the past two years of dizzying news. The frantic pace is redoubled in “Peril,” written with Robert Costa, Woodward’s colleague at The Washington Post. The books, about the staccato stream of events that accompanied Donald Trump’s time in office, are written at a mostly staccato clip. The titles of Bob Woodward’s three books about the Trump administration - “Fear,” “Rage” and now “Peril” - are appropriately blunt.
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