Searching for the elusive mind of the President.(Book Review)

Publication: Spectator

Publication Date: 28-DEC-02

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BUSH AT WAR by Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster, 18.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 224, ISBN 0743204735

In his first book, All the President's Men, which he wrote with fellow Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward made a thorough investigation of the inner workings of the mind of a president. Having interviewed dozens of people, he came up with the terrifying conclusion that Richard M. Nixon was brilliant, paranoid, utterly mendacious and a genius at manipulating people. Now, 30 years on, Woodward has looked into the mind of another president. Again, he has tramped the streets of Washington and interviewed dozens of people. Again, the results of his work are terrifying. But this book could...

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