{"id":1484,"date":"2018-09-21T18:22:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T17:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2018-09-21T18:22:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T17:22:59","slug":"review-fear-trump-in-the-white-house-by-bob-woodward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-fear-trump-in-the-white-house-by-bob-woodward\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Fear &#8211; Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how you go to see a movie and all the best parts were already in the preview?  That&#8217;s a bit like what happened to Bob Woodward&#8217;s 360 page book about the Trump White House. All the best revelations appeared in advance, and there are practically no surprises left in the book.  <\/p>\n<p>Woodward makes a tremendous effort to be balanced, and includes scenes that show a better side to Trump &#8212; he could be gracious, he could even listen sometimes.  But the overall picture is one of loose cannon, a man who should not be around kitchen knives, let alone nuclear weapons.  <\/p>\n<p>Having previously read Michael Wolff&#8217;s Fire and Fury, and James Comey&#8217;s A Higher Loyalty, I actually found this one to be the least engaging of three, despite Woodward&#8217;s obvious skills as a journalist and researcher.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how you go to see a movie and all the best parts were already in the preview? That&#8217;s a bit like what happened to Bob Woodward&#8217;s 360 page book about the Trump White&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}