New Releases by Bob Woodward

Twenty-five years after Richard Nixon''s resignation, investigative journalist Bob Woodward examines the legacy of Watergate. Based on hundreds of interviews - both on and off the record - and three years of research of government archives, Woodward''s latest book explains in detail how the premier scandal of US history has indelibly altered the shape of American politics and culture - and has limited the power to act of the presidency itself. Bob Woodward''s mix of historical perspective and journalistic sleuthing provides a unique perspective on the repercussions of Watergate and proves that it was far more than a passing, embarrassing crisis in American politics: it heralded the beginning of a new period of troubled presidencies. From Ford through to Clinton, presidents have battled public scepticism, a challenging Congress, adversarial press and even special prosecutors in their term in office. Now, a quarter of a century after the scandal emerged, the man who helped expose Watergate shows us the stunning impact of its heritage.

Based on 18 months of reporting, Woodward''s 17th book is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile Republican and Democratic leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal government''s fiscal condition over three and one half years. Drawn from memos, contemporaneous meeting notes, emails and in-depth interviews with the central players, THE PRICE OF POLITICS addresses the key issue of the presidential and congressional campaigns: the condition of the American economy and how and why we got there. Providing verbatim, day-by-day, even hour-by-hour accounts, the book shows what really happened, what drove the debates, negotiations and struggles that define, and will continue to define, the American future.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal, The Washington Post''s seminal Watergate stories have been gathered together for the first time as an eBook, including a foreword by journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein assessing the impact of their stories 40 years later. "5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats'' Offices Here", said the headline at the bottom of page one in the Washington Post on Sunday, June 18, 1972. The story reported that a team of burglars had been arrested inside the offices of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate office complex in Washington. On assignment, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward uncovered a widespread political scandal and cover-up at the highest levels of government, culminating with the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its work, which became the subject of two best-selling books and a renowned movie, "All the President''s Men." This eBook is a look back at the dramatic chain of events that would convulse Washington for two years and lead to the first resignation of a U.S. president, forever changing American politics.

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.

In Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism. At the core of Obama’s Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and the United States military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an exit plan for the Afghanistan War. “So what’s my option?” the president asked his war cabinet, seeking alternatives to the Afghanistan commander’s request for 40,000 more troops in late 2009. “You have essentially given me one option. ...It’s unacceptable.” “Well,” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates finally said, “Mr. President, I think we owe you that option.” It never came. An untamed Vice President Joe Biden pushes relentlessly to limit the military mission and avoid another Vietnam. The vice president frantically sent half a dozen handwritten memos by secure fax to Obama on the eve of the final troop decision. President Obama’s ordering a surge of 30,000 troops and pledging to start withdrawing U.S. forces by July 2011 did not end the skirmishing. General David Petraeus, the new Afghanistan commander, thinks time can be added to the clock if he shows progress. “I don’t think you win this war,” Petraeus said privately. “This is the kind of fight we’re in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids’ lives.” Hovering over this debate is the possibility of another terrorist attack in the United States. The White House led a secret exercise showing how unprepared the government is if terrorists set off a nuclear bomb in an American city—which Obama told Woodward is at the top of the list of what he worries about all the time. Verbatim quotes from secret debates and White House strategy sessions—and firsthand accounts of the thoughts and concerns of the president, his war council and his generals—reveal a government in conflict, often consumed with nasty infighting and fundamental disputes. Woodward has discovered how the Obama White House really works, showing that even more tough decisions lie ahead for the cerebral and engaged president. Obama’s Wars offers the reader a stunning, you-are-there account of the president, his White House aides, military leaders, diplomats and intelligence chiefs in this time of turmoil and danger.

John Belushi murió a los treinta y tres años ejecutado por su volcánica exuberancia (y por una exuberante dosis de speedball) en un lujoso hotel de Sunset Boulevard. Esa muerte es el arranque de una indagación que conducirá a Bob Woodward, cobestia negra de Richard Nixon, hasta las aromáticas vísceras del show business norteamericano. Para relatar la portentosa vida del humorista y plasmar la estridente fanfarria que rodeó su ascensión y su tragedia, el infatigable reportero tuvo que manejar un heterogéneo aluvión de materiales (diarios, cartas, inventarios, facturas, diagnósticos, etc.) y, sobre todo, entrevistar extensamente a una caterva formada por 217 celebridades, fantasmas y medianías: la viuda del difunto, compañeros de armas y fatigas como Dan Aykroyd, actores y directores como Chevy Chase, Robin Williams, Carrie Fisher, Spielberg o Jack Nicholson, prohombres de la industria cinematográfica, policías, matones, traficantes, músicos, vividores y otros interesantes especímenes del submundo adherido a las candilejas. Todos sabían que el bólido se dirigía al abismo, pero sus amigos fueron incapaces de detenerlo y sus satélites siguieron proporcionándole el combustible que lo mantenía en marcha (una marcha, por cierto, tan ruidosa como rentable): la «gran vida» de Nueva York o Hollywood tenía esos feroces inconvenientes. Bob Woodward dibuja en este libro un meticuloso, conmovedor y en ocasiones despiadado retrato de una época y de un individuo que vivió demasiado y lo perdió todo a manos de su insaciable antojo.

"State of Denial feels all the more outraged for its measured, nonpartisan tones and relentless reporting. It is nothing less than a watershed.... The full story of the Iraq War will be told by historians....This book...will be at the top of their shelves as they proceed to the altar of judgment." -- Ted Widmer, The Washington Post Book World "Serious, densely, even exhaustively reported, and a real contribution to history in that it gives history what it most requires, first-person testimony....This is a primer on how the executive branch of the United States works, or rather doesn''t work, in the early years of the 21st century." -- Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal "Never-before-reported nuggets in every chapter....It offers the most revealing in-the-room glimpse of the Bush administration that we have so far." -- Walter Shapiro, Salon.com "State of Denial is brimming with vivid details about White House meetings, critical phone calls, intelligence reports, and military affairs....Impressively detailed and eye-opening revelations about the Bush administration''s handling of the Iraq war and its aftermath." -- Chuck Leddy, The Boston Globe "Woodward''s book is packed with details about the gulf between the information the administration had and the picture it presented." -- USA Today "Woodward''s trilogy on the Bush administration at war is essential, and compelling, reading." -- Foreign Affairs

After three #1 "New York Times" bestsellers on the Bush administration''s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Woodward once again pulls back the curtain on Washington to reveal the inner workings of a government at war.

It is impossible to examine any part of the war on terrorism in the twenty-first century without seeing the hand of Dick Cheney, Colin Powell or one of their loyalists. The Commanders, an account of the use of the military in the first Bush administration, is in many respects their story—the intimate account of the tensions, disagreements and debates on the road to war. It is impossible to examine any part of the war on terrorism in the twenty-first century without seeing the hand of Dick Cheney, Colin Powell or one of their loyalists. The Commanders, an account of the use of the military in the first Bush administration, is in many respects their story—the intimate account of the tensions, disagreements and debates on the road to war.

The Agenda is a day-by-day, often minute-by-minute account of Bill Clinton''s White House. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, confidential internal memos, diaries, and meeting notes, Woodward shows how Clinton and his advisers grappled with questions of lasting importance -- the federal deficit, health care, welfare reform, taxes, jobs. One of the most intimate portraits of a sitting president ever published, this edition includes an afterword on Clinton''s efforts to save his presidency.

This book gives a fascinating account of individual healing sessions with children with complex special needs and moderate to severe learning difficulties. Drawing on his extensive experience, Bob Woodward shows how spiritual healing can help children with special needs to achieve peace and relaxation.

"Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year." This was the secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006. The forecast of a more violent 2007 in Iraq contradicted the repeated optimistic statements of President Bush, including one, two days earlier, when he said we were at a "turning point" that history would mark as the time "the forces of terror began their long retreat." State of Denial examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. Two days after the May report, the Pentagon told Congress, in a report required by law, that the "appeal and motivation for continued violent action will begin to wane in early 2007." In this detailed inside story of a war-torn White House, Bob Woodward reveals how White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, with the indirect support of other high officials, tried for 18 months to get Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld replaced. The president and Vice President Cheney refused. At the beginning of Bush''s second term, Stephen Hadley, who replaced Condoleezza Rice as national security adviser, gave the administration a "D minus" on implementing its policies. A SECRET report to the new Secretary of State Rice from her counselor stated that, nearly two years after the invasion, Iraq was a "failed state." State of Denial reveals that at the urging of Vice President Cheney and Rumsfeld, the most frequent outside visitor and Iraq adviser to President Bush is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who, haunted still by the loss in Vietnam, emerges as a hidden and potent voice. Woodward reveals that the secretary of defense himself believes that the system of coordination among departments and agencies is broken, and in a SECRET May 1, 2006, memo, Rumsfeld stated, "the current system of government makes competence next to impossible." State of Denial answers the core questions: What happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why? How does Bush make decisions and manage a war that he chose to define his presidency? And is there an achievable plan for victory? Bob Woodward''s third book on President Bush is a sweeping narrative -- from the first days George W. Bush thought seriously about running for president through the recruitment of his national security team, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the struggle for political survival in the second term. After more than three decades of reporting on national security decision making -- including his two #1 national bestsellers on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush at War (2002) and Plan of Attack (2004) -- Woodward provides the fullest account, and explanation, of the road Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and the White House staff have walked.

In Washington, D.C., where little stays secret for long, the identity of Deep Throat -- the mysterious source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal in 1972 -- remained hidden for 33 years. Now, Woodward tells the story of his long, complex relationship with W. Mark Felt, the enigmatic former No. 2 man in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who helped end the presidency of Richard Nixon. The Secret Man chronicles the story in intimate detail, from Woodward''s first, chance encounter with Felt in the Nixon White House, to their covert, middle-of-the-night meetings in an underground parking garage, to the aftermath of Watergate and decades beyond, until Felt finally stepped forward at age 91 to unmask himself as Deep Throat. The Secret Man reveals the struggles of a patriotic career FBI man, an admirer of J. Edgar Hoover, the Bureau''s legendary director. After Hoover''s death, Mark Felt found himself in the cross fire of one of Washington''s historic contests, as Nixon and his men tried to dominate the Bureau and cover up the crimes of the administration. This book illuminates the ongoing clash between temporary political power and the permanent bureaucracy of government. Woodward explores Felt''s conflicts and motives as he became Deep Throat, not only secretly confirming Woodward and Bernstein''s findings from dozens of other sources, but giving a sense of the staggering sweep of Nixon''s criminal abuses. In this volume, part memoir, part morality tale, part political and journalistic history, Woodward provides context and detail about The Washington Post''s expose of Watergate. He examines his later, tense relationship with Felt, when the FBI man stood charged with authorizing FBI burglaries. (Not knowing Felt''s secret role in the demise of his own presidency, Nixon testified at Felt''s trial, and Ronald Reagan later pardoned him.) Woodward lays bare his own personal struggles as he tries to define his relationship, his obligations, and his gratitude to this extraordinary confidential source. The Secret Man is an intense, 33-year journey, providing a one-of-a-kind study of trust, deception, pressures, alliances, doubts and a lifetime of secrets. Woodward has spent more than three decades asking himself why Mark Felt became Deep Throat. Now the world can see what happened and why, bringing to a close one of the last chapters of Watergate.

Aligned Yellow Bricks demonstrates the critical need for strategic vision when creating and maintaining balanced organizational structures and aligned workplace activities. Author Bob Woodward illustrates the effectiveness of this approach by citing descriptive examples from the mythical Professor Marvel Manufacturing Corporation to better-known business giants including Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor Company, and General Electric. The framework for establishing goal-based structural alignment and building a strategic roadmap can be found in the following questions: What are the primary goals of the organization? Has the organizational structure been aligned to effectively execute the actions necessary to achieve those goals? Have balanced metrics been defined to measure and integrate the aligned actions necessary to achieve those goals? Does the reward system create the incentives necessary to spur those appropriate actions? Aligned Yellow Bricks presents a logical and progressive methodology for success, while preventing unproductive "whirlwinds" of misaligned activity and Oz-like illusions of accomplishment. This step-by-step guide provides the direction to keep any organization grounded and steadily progressing along the strategic road to effective organizational achievement.

خطة الهجوم هي الرواية الحاسمة عن كيف ولماذا شن الرئيس جورج بوش ومجلس حربه وحلفاؤه هجومًا وقائيًا للإطاحة بصدام حسين واحتلال العراق. احدث رواية تاريخية بوب وودوارد في اتخاذ قرار واشنطن يوفر والسرد موثوق الأصلي من وراء الكواليس المناورة، ودراسة أسباب وعواقب الحرب الأكثر إثارة للجدل منذ حرب فيتنام. واستناداً إلى مقابلات مع 75 مشارك رئيسي وأكثر من ثلاث ساعات ونصف من المقابلات الحصرية مع الرئيس بوش ، فإن خطة الهجوم هي جزء من تاريخ رئاسي يرسم القرارات التي اتخذت خلال 16 شهراً حرجاً. جزء من التاريخ العسكري وجزءاً من قصة التجسس المخادعة حيث ترسل السي آي إيه فريق شبه عسكري سري إلى شمال العراق قبل ستة أشهر من بدء الحرب. ما يتبدى هو صور حميمة بشكل مدهش: الرئيس بوش في اجتماعات مجلس وزراء الحرب وفي محادثة خاصة. ديك تشيني ، نائب الرئيس المركز والمدار. كولن باول ، وزير الخارجية المتعثر والحذر. دونالد رامسفيلد ، تكنوقراطي الحرب المسيطر ؛ جورج تينيت ، مدير وكالة الاستخبارات المركزية ؛ تومي فرانكس ، الجنرال الدنيوي والمطلوب ؛ كوندوليزا رايس ، الحاكمة الدائمة والمستشار للأمن القومي ؛ كارل روف ، الاستراتيجي السياسي العملي ؛ أعضاء رئيسيين آخرين من موظفي البيت الأبيض وقيادة الكونجرس. وزعماء أجانب تتراوح من رئيس الوزراء البريطاني بلير إلى الرئيس الروسي بوتين. تقدم خطة الهجوم تفاصيل جديدة عن تقييمات الاستخبارات لأسلحة الدمار الشامل العراقية المزعومة والتخطيط لآثار الحرب. العبيكان 2004

Ce livre est un document exceptionnel. Fondé sur de nombreux entretiens exclusifs au Pentagone, à la CIA et à la NSA, ainsi qu''avec George W. Bush lui-même et son entourage, s''appuyant sur un magistral travail d''enquête, Plan d''attaque dévoile la face cachée du conflit en Irak. Guerre secrète, diplomatie parallèle, Bob Woodward révèle les raisons et les manœuvres, apparentes ou occultes, qui ont conduit à l''offensive contre Saddam Hussein. Il en explore les causes et les conséquences, démontrant froidement le savoir-faire des uns, la stupéfiante légèreté des autres, les antagonismes de personnes, la guerre impitoyable entre les différents services de l''Etat, sans oublier ce qui se passe réellement sur le terrain (actions de la CIA dans le nord de l''Irak, corruption des chefs de tribu et de militaires de haut rang). Exposant les violentes tensions qui, heure par heure, agitent le camp des " alliés " divisés, il livre le récit haletant et inquiétant des réussites, erreurs et lacunes de ceux qui sont à l''origine de l''une des guerres les plus controversées de ces dernières années.

Woodwards Recherchen ergaben, daß Bush an großen Teilen seiner Regierung vorbei schon im Dezember 2001 die Planungen für den Irak-Krieg in Auftrag gab. Er beschreibt zudem, wie kontrovers innerhalb der Bush-Administration um die Frage nach einem Krieg gegen den Irak gerungen wurde, wie groß die Meinungsunterschiede zwischen Außenminister Colin Powell und Verteidigungsminister Richard Cheney waren. Außerdem stützt Bob Woodward den Vorwurf, die Regierung habe sich erst nach dem 11. September um die Bekämpfung der Terrororganisation al-Qaida gekümmert, da sie bis dahin nur auf den Sturz Saddam Husseins fixiert gewesen ist.

يخبرنا بوب ودورد بما يتمتع به من مهارات البحث والاستقصاء ، كيف قاد الرئيس جورج دبليو بوش مع كبراء مستشاريه للأمن القومي الأمة إلى الحرب بعد الصدمة الأولية لهجوم 11 أيلول سبتمبر 2001 إن الأسئلة المستقصية للمشاورات التي أجراها مجلس الأمن القومي والإيحاءات المباشرة التي جالت في خاطر الرئيس وأعضاء وزارة الحرب جعلت من هذا الكتاب عرضا تاريخيا غير مسبوق للرئاسة المعاصرة في أيام الأزمات الحالكة يعتمد هذا الكتاب في تبيين القوة الجامحة المبالغة لإعادة تشكيل العالم على أكثر من مئات من مقابلات مع مصادر هامة ، ومقابلة خاصة دامت أربع ساعات مع الرئيس كان نائب الرئيس دك تشيني الصامت قليل الكلام يمثل قوة الضغط للتعجيل بحرب في أفغانستان والعراق أما وزير الخارجية كولن باول الدبلوماسي الحذر والجندي الوفي فقد حمل عبء بناء تحالف دولي في إدارة نزاعة للانفراد بالسيطرة على العالم ووزير الدفاع دونالد رامسفيلد المحرض الذكي ونجم الإعلام الذي قاد الحملة العسكرية إلى أفغانستان ويأمل في متابعتها إلى العراق ومستشارة الأمن القومي كنداليزا رايس قناصة المشكلات الحاضرة دائما التي فاجأنا بزوغها كأهم مستشاري الرئيس ويحوي الكتاب صورة حية لمدير وكالة الاستخبارات المركزية جورج تنت الحاضر التواق لعمل خفي ضد الإرهاب في أفغانستان وفي كل العالم والعمل يتبع خطة ينفذها فريق يقوم بمهمة داخل أفغانستان لتقديم المال لشراء أصدقاء بملايين الدولارات الأمريكية محمولة في حقائب ضخمة العبيكان للنشر 2003

Es el relato de lo que sucedió durante los cien días posteriores al 11 de septiembre. El autor nos cuenta cómo reaccionó el Presidente Bush y su gabinete a los atentados a las Torres Gemelas y el Pentágono, a la noticia del ántrax, la invasión a Afganistán y de cómo se estaba gestando la posible guerra contra Irak. Con ese fin, Woodward entrevistó a más de cien fuentes y sostuvo cuatro horas de conversación con George Bush. Es una crónica de la reacción de un gobierno moderno ante el ataque terrorista más violento de la historia. Sin embargo, también aparece por una parte el carácter de un presidente que pareciera tener una inclinación marcada hacia la guerra y por la otra, la fijación de Estados Unidos por convertirse en policía del mundo, teniendo en el petróleo y el comercio de armas su única misión "humanitaria".

11 septembre 2001. 8 h. George J. Tenet, directeur de la CIA, dérogeant à son rituel quotidien, ne prend pas son petit déjeuner avec le président Bush. Il rejoint son ami le sénateur démocrate Boren dans un hôtel à Manhattan et lui fait part une fois encore de ses inquiétudes concernant Ben Laden. 9 h 15 : Le World Trade Center est attaqué. 12 septembre 2001. 16 h : Le dossier Iraq est déposé sur le bureau de Tenet et des conseillers à la défense du président George W. Bush. Fidèle à sa méthode journalistique, fondée sur l''interview et le recoupement des sources, Bob Woodward nous entraîne dans les coulisses du pouvoir, au cœur même de l''action. Avec lui, nous entrons dans le Bureau ovale d''où l''on suivra, heure par heure, la mise en place de l''implacable machine de guerre américaine contre le terrorisme, de l''Afghanistan à l''Iraq. Entretiens exclusifs avec le président et ses conseillers spéciaux (de Dick Cheney à Condoleezza Rice en passant par Colin Powell ou Donald Rumsfeld), actions diplomatiques et opérations secrètes de la CIA, Woodward tisse, avec ce document exceptionnel, le récit haletant et inquiétant de l''offensive de l''administration Bush.

With his unmatched investigative skill, Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September 11 attacks, led the nation to war. Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National Security Council -- and firsthand revelations of the private thoughts, concerns and fears of the president and his war cabinet -- make Bush at War an unprecedented chronicle of a modern presidency in time of grave crisis. Based on interviews with more than a hundred sources and four hours of exclusive interviews with the president, Bush at War reveals Bush''s sweeping, almost grandiose, vision for remaking the world. "I''m not a textbook player, I''m a gut player," the president said. Woodward''s virtual wiretap into the White House Situation Room reveals a stunning group portrait of an untested president and his advisers, three of whom might themselves have made it to the presidency. Vice President Dick Cheney, taciturn but hard-line, always pressing for more urgency in Afghanistan and toward Iraq. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the cautious diplomat and loyal soldier, tasked with building an international coalition in an administration prone to unilateralism. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the brainy agitator and media star who led the military through Afghanistan and, he hopes, through Iraq. National security adviser Condoleezza Rice, the ever-present troubleshooter who surprisingly emerges as perhaps the president''s most important adviser. Bush at War includes a vivid portrait of CIA director George Tenet, ready and eager for covert action against terrorists in Afghanistan and worldwide. It follows a CIA paramilitary team leader on a covert mission inside Afghanistan to pay off assets and buy friends with millions in U.S. currency carried in giant suitcases. In Bush at War, Bob Woodward once again delivers a reporting tour de force.

Biography of Vice President Dan Quayle drawn from 200 interviews including 20 with Dan Quayle himself and 4 with his wife.

Bob Woodward, the best investigative reporter in the country, spent six years examining the CIA using hundreds of inside sources and secret documents to paint a picture of the world''s largest espionage apparatus.