In one of Woodward’s scenes, a Cabinet meeting where several officials oppose Trump’s desire to crush anti-police protests with active-duty soldiers, Trump responds by throwing a tantrum, screaming, “You’re all fucked up. Instead, he channels his anecdotes through the viewpoints of well-known characters, who tend to be either heroes (who often coincide with sources who have told him a lot) or villains (who usually haven’t). He subjects them to little, if any, analysis. The books themselves also follow a pattern, so consistent, over the past few decades, that it might be dubbed “Woodwardian.” The author amasses vast quantities of scoops, some of them extraordinary. His longtime employer, the Washington Post, previews a few of the book’s most breathless scoops the scoops are discussed (often inaccurately) on every TV news show by pub date, the book has rocketed to the top of the bestseller list. The seasonal routine has already hardened into ritual. It’s happened in three of the past four Septembers, with each volume of his bluntly titled Trump trilogy- Fear (2018), Rage (2020), and now Peril (2021), the last co-authored with Robert Costa.
General Assembly, and, in recent years, the appearance of a new Bob Woodward book. September is the month of renewed beginnings: the autumn equinox, the start of the school year, the U.N.
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