...Now 67, (click title to entry - thank you) since winning global fame along with Carl Bernstein for breaking the Watergate scandal and forcing Richard Nixon's resignation in the early 1970s, he has written more than a dozen bestsellers, while continuing to report for the Washington Post.
His books are mostly inside stories of governments or institutions. They are painfully thorough, typically involving hundreds of interviews. They are notable for the blow-by-blow, memo-by-memo, meeting-by-meeting account of how momentous decisions were reached. Obama's Wars is his 16th.
The revelations are often telling. Former CIA director George Tenet will always be remembered in part for telling Mr Bush that finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was a "slam dunk"....
I haven't read the book, but, the gossip about it tells me only one thing. President Obama has surrounded himself with critics. He did that intentionaly. Even his Vice Prsident was is opponent. He takes all opinions seriously and seems to thrive on it.
If I were to purchase the book by Woodward, I would read it to know how folks are thinking and not about how people are 'getting along.' I wouldn't expect to hear a great deal of harmony in this White House.
I trust President Obama, I don't need to know the details. I just need to know he is doing his level best to get the job done.
