Audiobooks by Bob Woodward

Two-time Pulitzer prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars - Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American presidency. War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power. With unrivalled, inside-the-room reporting, Woodward shows President Biden's approach to managing the war in Ukraine, the most significant land war in Europe since World War II, and his tortured path to contain the bloody Middle East conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. Woodward reveals the extraordinary complexity and consequence of wartime back-channel diplomacy and decision-making to deter the use of nuclear weapons and a rapid slide into World War III. The raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024, starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president. War provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate. Woodward's reporting once again sets the standard for journalism at its most authoritative and illuminating.

Bob Woodward (Author), Robert Petkoff, Unknown (Narrator)

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The Trump Tapes

"I'm doing something here that I've never done before, presenting the lengthy, raw interviews of my work. In the fall of 2019 through August 2020, I interviewed President Trump 19 times for my second book on his presidency, Rage. I had also interviewed him in 2016 when he was a presidential candidate. I decided to take this unusual step of releasing these recordings after relistening in full to all 20 interviews. As I listened to them again I was stunned by their relevance to understanding Trump. Hearing Trump speak is a completely different experience to reading the transcripts or listening to snatches of interviews on television or the internet." Bob Woodward from The Trump Tapes The Trump Tapes is the intimate and astonishing audio archive of Bob Woodward's 20 interviews with Donald Trump. Featuring more than eight hours of Woodward/Trump conversations, The Trump Tapes is as historically important as the Frost/Nixon interviews. In this up-close, unvarnished self-portrait of Trump and his presidency, listeners will hear Trump as Woodward did: profane, incautious, divisive, and deceptive, but also engaging and entertaining, ever the host and the salesman, trying to sell his presidency to win Woodward over. Relying on familiar devices - airing grievances, stoking divisions, repeating himself to a staggering degree, as if saying something often and loud enough will make something true - Trump uses his voice as a concussive instrument, pounding in the listener's ear. In new commentary created exclusively for The Trump Tapes, Woodward at times breaks frame from the interviews to provide essential context or clarification. But for the most part the interviews proceed uninterrupted, fulfilling Woodward's goal of presenting Trump's voice and words for the historical record, and offering listeners the chance to hear and judge and make their own assessments. As relevant as ever to the task of understanding Donald Trump, The Trump Tapes reveal Trump in his own words - a man consumed by the past and clinging to his grievances, unable to understand his responsibilities as president or address the crises affecting the country.

Bob Woodward (Author), Bob Woodward, Donald J. Trump (Narrator)

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Peligro

La transición del presidente Donald J. Trump al presidente Joseph R. Biden Jr. es uno de los períodos más peligrosos de la historia de Estados Unidos. Pero como revelan por vez primera el ganador del Premio Pulitzer Bob Woodward y el aclamado reportero Robert Costa, se trataba de mucho más que una simple crisis política interna. Woodward y Costa entrevistaron a más de 200 personas en el centro de la confusión, lo que resultó en más de 6.000 páginas de transcripciones y un retrato fascinante y definitivo de una nación al borde del abismo. Este estudio clásico de Washington lleva a los lectores a lo más profundo de la Casa Blanca de Trump, la Casa Blanca de Biden, la carrera electoral de 2020, al Pentágono y al Congreso, con vívidos relatos de testigos presenciales de lo que realmente sucedió. Peligro se complementa con material nunca antes visto de órdenes secretas, transcripciones de llamadas confidenciales, diarios, correos electrónicos, notas de reuniones y otros registros personales y gubernamentales, lo que lo convierte en una historia incomparable. También es la primera mirada al interior de la presidencia de Biden mientras enfrenta los desafíos de su vida: la continua pandemia mortal y un mundo plagado de amenazas bajo la sombra oscura y flotante del ex presidente Trump. 'Tenemos mucho que hacer en este invierno de peligro', declaró Biden en su toma de posesión, un evento marcado por una alarma de seguridad angustiosa y la amenaza del terrorismo nacional.' - Bob Woodward es editor asociado en The Washington Post, donde ha trabajado durante cuarenta y siete años. Ganador de dos Premios Pulitzer, el primero por su cobertura del Watergate y el segundo en 2003 como reportero líder cubriendo el atentado terrorista del 11-S. Robert Costa es un reportero político nacional en The Washington Post, donde ha trabajado desde 2014. Anteriormente se desempeñó como moderador y editor gerente de Washington Week en PBS y como analista político para NBC News y MSNBC. Tiene una licenciatura de la Universidad de Notre Dame y una maestría de la Universidad de Cambridge.

Bob Woodward, Robert Costa (Author), Carles Sianes (Narrator)

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The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade: The Inside Story, Adapted from The Brethren

A thrilling, behind-the-scenes account of the revolutionary Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling. The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade offers a front-row seat to the inner workings of the Supreme Court that led to the monumental Roe v. Wade decision. Spanning from 1969 to 1972, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Bob Woodward and coauthor Scott Armstrong report on the masterful maneuvering and politicking that affected the court's decisions and created obstacles for the landmark ruling. Abridged from the #1 bestseller The Brethren, this is an exquisite work of reporting on one of the most important rulings of the United States.

Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong (Author), Holter Graham (Narrator)

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Peril

The storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021 revealed the transition from President Trump to President Biden to be one of the most dangerous periods in American history, with the result of the election called into question by the sitting president. But, as internationally bestselling author Bob Woodward and acclaimed reporter Robert Costa reveal for the first time, it was far more than just a domestic political crisis. At the highest level of the US military, secret action was taken to prevent Trump from possibly starting a war. Woodward and Costa interviewed more than 200 people at the centre of the turmoil, resulting in a spellbinding and definitive portrait of a nation on the brink. They take readers deep inside the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 campaign, and the Pentagon and Congress, with vivid, eyewitness accounts of what really happened. Peril is supplemented throughout with never-before-seen material from secret orders, transcripts of confidential calls, diaries, emails, meeting notes and other personal and government records, making for an unparalleled history. It is also the first inside look at Biden's presidency, revealing the background to his controversial decision to leave Afghanistan. He took office faced with the challenges of a lifetime: dealing with the continuing deadly pandemic and its crushing economic impact, all the while navigating a bitter and disabling partisan divide, and the hovering, dark shadow of the former president. 'We have much to do in this winter of peril,' Biden declared at his inauguration. Peril is the extraordinary story of the end of one presidency and the beginning of another. The culmination of Bob Woodward's bestselling trilogy on the Trump presidency, along with Fear and Rage, it is an essential read for anyone wanting to understand this tumultuous period.

Bob Woodward, Robert Costa (Author), Robert Petkoff (Narrator)

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Wut (ungekürzte Lesung)

Ein Präsident im Visier der Journalistenlegende: Donald Trump zwischen Corona, Wirtschaftskrise und wachsendem Widerstand Donald Trump hat die USA in eine tiefe Krise geführt. Bob Woodward weist nach: Bereits im Januar 2020 wusste Trump, dass die Corona-Epidemie zur größten Bedrohung der nationalen Sicherheit während seiner Präsidentschaft wird. Gesundheitssystem und Wirtschaft sind am Rande des Zusammenbruchs. Zugleich versammeln sich Hunderttausende auf den Straßen, um gegen den immer offener ausbrechenden Rassismus zu demonstrieren. Wie reagiert der US-Präsident? Pulitzer-Preisträger Bob Woodward hat 18 Interviews mit dem Präsidenten geführt, Hunderte von Stunden mit Mitarbeitern und Opponenten gesprochen, um das Portrait eines Mannes zu zeichnen, der zwischen Verdrängung, Angriff und - man staune - Momenten des Zweifels schwankt.

Bob Woodward (Author), Julian Mehne (Narrator)

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Rage

BOB WOODWARD'S NEW BOOK, RAGE, IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AND INTIMATE TOUR DE FORCE OF NEW REPORTING ON THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY FACING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, ECONOMIC DISASTER AND RACIAL UNREST. Woodward, the No 1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump's head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans. In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months - an utterly vivid window into Trump's mind - the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the 'dynamite behind every door'. At key decision points, Rage shows how Trump's responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and style he developed during his first three years as president. Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggled to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making. Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with first-hand witnesses as well as participants' notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents. Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a 'fantasy film'. Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over Covid-19 and the economic calamity. 'Don't worry about it, Bob. Okay?' Trump told the author in July. 'Don't worry about it. We'll get to do another book. You'll find I was right.'

Bob Woodward (Author), Robert Petkoff (Narrator)

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The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court

The Brethren is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices—maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising, and making decisions that affect every major area of American life.

Bob Woodward, Scott Armstrong (Author), Holter Graham (Narrator)

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Furcht - Trump im weißen Haus (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Das bisher präziseste Porträt eines amtierenden Präsidenten, das in den ersten Jahren der Amtszeit veröffentlicht wird. Von ihm stammt die maßgebliche Berichterstattung über acht Präsidentschaften von Nixon bis Obama, nun enthüllt Bob Woodward mit beispielloser Genauigkeit die erschütternden Zustände im Weißen Haus unter Donald Trump und vor allem seine Entscheidungsprozesse bei wichtigen innen- und außenpolitischen Themen. Woodward stützt sich auf Hunderte Interviews mit direkt Beteiligten, auf Besprechungsvermerke, persönliche Tagebücher, Dateien und Dokumente. Im Zentrum stehen die explosiven Debatten und Beratungen im Oval Office, im Situation Room, in der Air Force One und den Privaträumen des Weißen Hauses.

Bob Woodward (Author), Richard Barenberg (Narrator)

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Miedo. Trump en la Casa Blanca

'Explosivo.' - The Washington Post 'Devastador.' - The New Yorker 'Sin precedentes.' - CNN La historia del presidente Trump como solo Bob Woodward podía contarla. Con la autoridad de haber informado a lo largo de ocho presidencias, desde Nixon hasta Obama, Bob Woodward revela con un detalle sin precedentes la horrible verdad del día a día en la Casa Blanca del presidente Donald Trump, precisando cómo es su toma de decisiones en las principales políticas internas y exteriores. Woodward analiza cientos de horas de entrevistas a fuentes de primera mano, notas de reuniones, diarios personales, archivos y documentos. El libro hace especial hincapié en los polémicos debates y en las decisiones que se toman en el despacho oval, la sala de situaciones, el Air Force One y en la residencia oficial de La Casa Blanca. Miedo es el retrato más íntimo sobre un presidente en activo jamás publicado anteriormente durante sus primeros años en la Casa Blanca. 'Woodward describe la Casa Blanca de Trump como una operación bizantina, traicionera y fuera de control.' Mark Landler y Maggie Haberman, New York Times 'Un informe devastador sobre la presidencia de Trump que será consultado durante muchos años. Lo que Woodward ha escrito no es tan solo la historia de un presidente profundamente cuestionado, sino también un relato alrededor de aquellos que le apoyaron y eligieron.' Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker

Bob Woodward (Author), Rubén Hernández (Narrator)

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Fear: Trump in the White House

"Explosive."—The Washington Post "Devastating."—The New Yorker "Unprecedented."—CNN THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence. Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president's first years in office.

Bob Woodward (Author), Robert Petkoff (Narrator)

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Fear: Trump in the White House

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT. 'Fear depicts a White House awash in dysfunction, where the Lord of the Flies is the closest thing to an owner's manual.' The Guardian With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence. Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president's first years in office.

Bob Woodward (Author), Robert Petkoff (Narrator)

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