Bob Woodward, "Fear"

Bob Woodward discusses his book, "Fear", at a Politics and Prose event at George Washington University on 9/27/18.

Bob Woodward, one of the most notable journalists and non-fiction authors in the country, is best known for his original news reporting on the Watergate scandal in the 1970s with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein. Since then, he has authored eighteen books on American politics, twelve of which have topped best-seller lists, won a Pulitzer as the lead reporter for his coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and he became associate editor of The Washington Post. His latest book, Fear: Trump in the White House, is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the first years in office. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files, and documents. This inside look at the Trump presidency is told as only Bob Woodward can tell it: with authoritative reporting and unflinching honesty. Woodward is in conversation with Michael Schmidt, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and correspondent for The New York Times.

Bob Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked for forty-seven years. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first for the Post’s coverage of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, and second in 2003 as the lead reporter for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has authored or coauthored eighteen books, all of which have been national nonfiction bestsellers. Twelve of those have been #1 national bestsellers.

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