Review
Bob Woodward's latest book on the Bush administration (following
Bush at War, 2002; and
Plan of Attack, 2004) doesn't pick up where
Plan of Attack left off but instead sweeps back to offer an overview of
the Presidential life and times of George W. Bush, from the days when he first
thought seriously about running for President, through the recruitment of his
national security team, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and his second term as
President. As such,
State of Denial is not the third part of a
trilogy, as it's being billed by the publisher, but an authoritative standalone
account of the road Bush and his White House cohorts have traveled to get to
this point.
The media reviews for
State of Denial are mixed. While most praise
the book itself, a number of reviewers comment on the considerable delta between...
Beyond the Book
Robert Upshur Woodward, known as Bob, was born in March 1943 in Geneva,
Illinois. He studied history and English literature at Yale, receiving his
B.A. in 1965, after which he spent four years as a Naval officer. He was
discharged as a Lieutenant in 1970 after serving as an aide to the Chief of
Naval Operations, Admiral Thomas H Moorer. He was hired by
The Washington
Post but was let go after his two-week trial because he lacked any experience as
a journalist. After a year working for the Montgomery Sentinel, he
reapplied to
The Washington Post and was given a job in August 1971. Less
than a year, later Woodward and Carl Bernstein were assigned to investigate the
burglary of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in a...
