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Woodwards new book6/4/2023 ![]() Since then, he’s been replaced by a stock character called Bob Woodward who, at a party, might introduce himself: “Hi, I’m the guy who writes Woodward’s books.” It was too much to resist, I guess: Being one of the powerful people who get to decide who the powerful people are. The lesson may be: don’t have a beautiful actor like Robert Redford play you when you’re young. At the end of this one, what squiggles out is, Trump’s “the wrong man for the job.” ![]() The writing’s trite, shallow and brimful of clichés (Military sources? ‘Ramrod-straight’). She nailed Woodward’s “scrupulous passivity” as he takes notes on how the powerful like to see themselves. ![]() Joan Didion set the bar in 1996, on his two Clinton books and others. (I admit I skim them, they’re just impossible to focus on.) More instructive too. ![]() name of his era, who’s still dangerous enough that the New Yorker stopped running him in 2013.įor decades it has been more fun to read despairing, exasperated reviews of Woodward than his books. ![]() He’s not remotely Seymour Hersh, the other iconic U.S. He’s no journalistic hero, he’s a jerk each new tome confirms it. I don’t think it’s a secret that Bob Woodward can neither write nor think. ![]()
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