The book itself is written in a very conversational tone when discussing conversations and events that had happened as if it was occurring in real-time and you were there listening. Other chapters are informative, especially for those who might not keep up with current events and politics at a high level or those who might have forgotten details of the Biden Campaign and the Trump White House.
The book is a timeline of key events from Biden mulling the decision to run for president and his concerns in doing so to losing early primaries and mounting a comeback to win the Democratic Party's nomination. In Trump's parts of the book, it dives into the Trump White House and reelection campaign. This entails events such as the beginning of the COVID pandemic, June 1, election night, Trump and his associates trying to overturn the election, and the insurrection at the Capitol (among other events) with precise detail in between.
Essentially, the book highlights events from late 2019 to early 2021 for Biden and Trump. It provides background, dialogue, conversations, and other material I have not heard before until reading the book. A lot of the material was unknown before this book's publishing, too. This material stemmed from important people within both bases that had a first-hand look or were directly involved with what was going on but had not spoken out until now. Numerous people in the book are figures many would not have initially associated with being involved but were there.
I've read through some of the other reviews (specifically those that gave it a low rating) and can't help but notice a common theme. This theme is that there is allegedly a bias by the authors that makes the book pro-Biden and anti-Trump. With that, I should give a disclaimer that if factual and well-documented conversations, events, actions, or any other occurrences within the final years of the Trump presidency might trigger or offend you, this is not the book for you.
Overall, a great read. It certainly is a must-read if you are interested in politics and current events.
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The Jury is Still Out on PERIL
This reader tends not to read political books, because the authors tend not to be neutral. When it was announced that the new Robert Woodward & Robert Costa book “Peril” was about to be released, some of the blurbs were interesting, so this reader decided to buy it. The interesting blurbs were about General Mark Alexander Milley and Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro Pelosi. General Milley should be court-martialed, stripped of his rank, and provided free housing at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for the rest of his life. Nancy Pelosi belongs in prison for her behind the scenes activities concerning this nation’s nuclear codes. When reading this book, one wonders how a human being could hate someone as much as Pelosi hates President Trump.As the story continued, it appeared to be one more Leftist publication on how evil President Trump was and is. Yes, the president had/has some annoying personality traits. He never should have gotten on Twitter. His daily twits were beneath him. Slamming people in his speeches got old. The slams were beneath him. When watching the final debates with Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, one knew there was a problem. Talking over Biden was beneath him.Still, as this reader continue his reading journey through “Peril”, one became aware that the two authors had no plans to talk about all the successes President Trump achieved. That got really old, to the point where this reader considering slamming the book shut, but did not because of a belief that once you begin a book, you finish it.The reading journey continued through the election, so the story now focused on Biden. The two authors presented Biden as an experienced senior statesman. He took charge of every issue. All the decisions were made by him. He could do no wrong. He was on the path to becoming the most popular president in history. The views of the authors did not follow the history of the year 2021.As the reading journey continued towards the end of the book, something changed. The writing was different. Most probably the two authors discarded what was previously written, knowing that the situation in America and the world had changed because of President Biden. The earlier hate they expressed against President Trump changed. Now, some of the words were positive. It must have been difficult for them to use positive words about President Trump.This reader was surprised what was not in the book and those were the decisions made by President Biden on January 20, 2021. The decision to reverse President Trump’s policies on the border and stopping the building of the border wall, created an incredible crisis that continues to this day. This reader no longer walks his ranch land in southern Arizona, which is near the border, because of unwelcomed visitors. The authors did not mention the action taken on January 20, 2021 to stop the building of the Keystone XL pipeline, which made the United States dependent on foreign oil, when it was previously oil independent. The list goes on, yet the authors did not mention them.General Mark Milley seemed to be mentioned in almost every chapter, yet the authors failed to mention how Milley and Secretary of Defense Lloyd James Austin brought the Woke culture into the military. Reservists, who are 11-Bravos have two weeks of active duty per year. Instead of blowing things up, they were in classrooms being indoctrinated in issues that have no place in our military.For most of the book, this reader gave it one star. After reading the final chapters it was moved up to three stars. In six months, this reader will again read “Peril”, to see if he changed any opinion about this story.
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So well documented like all of Woodward's and Costa's works. Excellent read
Reviewed in Canada on October 2, 2021
