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Peril
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Wowza. Just...wowza.
While reading this, all I kept thinking was, "This is the craziest shit I've ever read in my life." After which I had to remind myself repeatedly, THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. It almost seems like a feverish dream, some distant repressed memory. It SEEMS like fiction, but then you realize it's so bizarre that not even the most imaginative author could come up with this shit.
Reading this is no different than reading your favourite thriller. It's written like a thriller, with short chapters and cliffhangers. I'm personally very into politics, I follow politics closely. Yet, reading this, I felt like I was experiencing this all again for the first time because Woodward gives us so much new information. It feels like you're a fly on the wall, living the history all over again but with a magnifying glass this time, with a deeper understanding of the inner workings of all that chaos. It was one thing to experience it from afar, watching it all unfold from a distance on TV or social media from another country, but another thing to experience it as though you're right in the room; and that's what this book accomplishes - it takes you into the room. My heart was actually pounding at moments, mostly with rage.
Anyways, not much to say other than this was an amazing book. Well written, well researched. Very interesting. Would recommend. And I'm highly likely to return to Woodward.
Onward.
While reading this, all I kept thinking was, "This is the craziest shit I've ever read in my life." After which I had to remind myself repeatedly, THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. It almost seems like a feverish dream, some distant repressed memory. It SEEMS like fiction, but then you realize it's so bizarre that not even the most imaginative author could come up with this shit.
Reading this is no different than reading your favourite thriller. It's written like a thriller, with short chapters and cliffhangers. I'm personally very into politics, I follow politics closely. Yet, reading this, I felt like I was experiencing this all again for the first time because Woodward gives us so much new information. It feels like you're a fly on the wall, living the history all over again but with a magnifying glass this time, with a deeper understanding of the inner workings of all that chaos. It was one thing to experience it from afar, watching it all unfold from a distance on TV or social media from another country, but another thing to experience it as though you're right in the room; and that's what this book accomplishes - it takes you into the room. My heart was actually pounding at moments, mostly with rage.
Anyways, not much to say other than this was an amazing book. Well written, well researched. Very interesting. Would recommend. And I'm highly likely to return to Woodward.
Onward.
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This one’s worth buying hardcover. Read it twice. By 2023 a lot of these sources went public with the dialog detailed here. Attorney General Barr for one. This book illustrates the best of the Fourth Estate that the press offers a free democracy.