Woodward dives deep for project Fear

Some of what Woodward reveals is both fascinating and terrifying, as Trump’s officials grapple with his erratic behaviour by effectively usurping his constitutional authority

Donald Trump emerges from Bob Woodward’s new book as erratic, incurious and with little understanding of his brief. GETTY

Politics

Fear

By Bob Woodward

Simon & Schuster, €25

Bob Woodward is the doyen of US political journalists, a reporter whose work has taken on legendary status. In the 1970s, he and Carl Bernstein painstakingly investigated to uncover the real reasons behind the 1972 Watergate break-in.

Their reporting for the Washington Post exposed the rotten scandal inside Richard Nixon’s administration that ultimately forced him to resign as US president. There was not one ...