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Rage (精裝版)

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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 #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 firsthand 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."

 

鮑伯.伍華德的新書《憤怒》是部史無前例、近身報導的傑作,內容記載了川普政府面臨全球疫情、經濟災難和種族動蕩的各種施政。
 
伍華德是全球暢銷書《恐懼:川普入主白宮》的作者,他揭露了川普被警告新冠疫情將是他任內最大國安威脅的關鍵時刻。伍華德鉅細靡遺的描繪了二零二零年一月川普現身橢圓形辦公室時,他的幕僚告訴他新冠疫情可能達到一九一八年西班牙流感大流行時的規模,當時造成了六十七萬五千名美國人喪生。
 
在七個多月的動盪日子,伍華德進行了十七次留下記錄的採訪,讓我們能一窺川普的真實想法。川普總統展露了他性格的真實面貌,時而否定,時而好勝,混雜著令人驚訝的懷疑時刻,在他預見了施政所面臨的危機時,他稱之為“每扇門後面都埋著炸藥”。
 
在關鍵的決策點上,《憤怒》顯示了川普對二零二零年危機的反應完全基於他前三年總統任內所形成的直覺式反應、習慣和風格。本書重新回顧川普就任初期,在他取消了國安問題的集體決策模式時,當時的國防部長詹姆士•馬提斯、國務卿雷克斯•提勒森和國家情報總監丹•柯茨如何捍衛國家安全。書中內容引自對第一手證人以及與事者數百小時的採訪,以及他們的筆記、電郵、日記、行事曆和機密文件等。
 
伍華德取得川普與朝鮮領導人金正恩來往的二十五封未曾曝光的私人信函,他將這兩位領導人之間的情誼描述成“奇幻電影”般的情節。川普堅稱他將戰勝新冠疫情和經濟困境。「鮑伯,別擔心,好嗎?」川普在七月告訴作者。 「別擔心。我們再來寫另一本書。你會發現我是對的。」

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