WATERGATE REPORTER TAKES ON TRUMP IN NEW BOOK

NEW YORK: Bob Woodward, the indefatigable Washington Post journalist who has chronicled several presidential administrations in best-selling books, has his latest subject: Donald Trump.

Simon & Schuster plans to publish Fear: Trump In The White House on September 11.

The book reveals “the harrowing life inside Donald Trump’s White House and how the president makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies,” the publishing house said, adding that the book draws from “hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, contemporaneous meeting notes, files, documents and personal diaries”.

The book’s title can be traced back to a remark Trump made in an interview with Woodward and another reporter in 2016 when Trump was running for office, The Washington Post reported.

Initially, Trump said that “real power is through respect,” according a transcript of the interview. Then he added: “Real power is, I don’t even want to use the word: ‘Fear’”.

Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked for nearly five decades. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes — including one that The Post received for his coverage with Carl Bernstein of the Watergate scandal. The pair became famous for that reporting, and in 1974 wrote the bestselling book All the President’s Men, later made into a movie.

Woodward’s latest book will come about eight months after Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” rose to the top of the New York Times best-seller list for hardcover non-fiction.