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Bob Woodward's newest book is making headlines

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🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Legendary journalist Bob Woodward's new book War, like so many of his books about the American presidency over the last half century, is generating headlines.

But Woodward's work is about a lot more than juicy nuggets that rocket around cable news and social media.

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Legendary journalist Bob Woodward's new book, War, like so many of his books about the American

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presidency over the last half century, is generating headlines. Like the one about the COVID

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test machine that then President Donald Trump sent Russian

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President Vladimir Putin in the early days of the pandemic.

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And new revelations from Bob Wooder about Donald Trump and

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Vladimir Putin.

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That Trump secretly sent to Putin scarce COVID testing machines for his personal

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use.

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Or the seven secret phone calls Woodward reports that Trump had with Putin after Trump left office.

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The two have spoken as many as seven times since he left the White House.

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And the detail that Secretary of State Anthony Blinking

0:44.0

nudged President Joe Biden toward his decision

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to drop out of the race after that debate in June.

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Consider this, Woodward's book is chalk full of eye-popping details, but these books Woodward writes

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