Bob Woodward’s new book about the Bush Administration will be published September 8 and his publisher’s embargo is so tight not even the title was revealed until today.
The War Within: A Secret White House History is Woodward’s fourth about this administration; the previous three all reached Number One on the New York Times list and this one will have a first printing of 900,000 copies. The most recent, State of Denial, was more critical than the first two, which had prompted the chattering classes to characterize Woodward as a stenographer for the Bush White House.
The Washington Post, where Woodward still works more than 30 years after Watergate — the story that propelled Woodward and Bernstein to fame — will publish an excerpt September 9 and he’ll be interviewed on 60 Minutes that evening.
Simon & Schuster says the book “takes readers deep inside the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. Based on extensive interviews with participants, contemporaneous notes and secret documents, the book traces the internal debates, tensions and critical turning points in the Iraq War during an extraordinary two-year period.”
More about the book can be found here.
9/7 UPDATE: Woodward excerpt available
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Oh, this looks VERY interesting, and I think the publication date is no accident, coming just before elections. I, like many, first became aware of Woodward/Bernstein from the Redford/Hoffman film (a classic!) and have felt unnerved ever since that such things could actually happen in a republic. Thanks! I shall look out for it.
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Hi, Muse! Yes, I’m really looking forward to reading the excerpt. If you haven’t read any of his books I think you’ll find he can be a turgid writer. He’s certainly not the elegant writer Bernstein is, but he’s so well-connected he can’t be ignored.
I remember “Woodstein’s” coverage in the Post, actually. I was living in Washington during Watergate so even though I was young the whole affair, including the hearings and resignation, made a lasting impression. 34 years ago this month that Nixon resigned.
I won’t speak ill of the dead.