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'War' Book Review: Illuminating, important, imperfect

Legendary reporter Bob Woodward pulls back the curtain on another presidency, but leaves some hard questions unasked Photo: The White House, CC BY 3.0 US <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons Review: 'War' by Bob Woodward ( Simon & Schuster) Bob Woodward has been chronicling the internal discussions, decisions and machinations of American presidential administrations since before many of his journalistic contemporaries were born. Beginning with his world-famous account of the Watergate scandal, All The President’s Men (co-authored by Carl Bernstein) in 1974, Woodward has specialised for the last half-century in bringing readers insight, information and intrigue about many of the world’s most powerful people. Presidents Clinton and Obama each had two Woodward books written about their time in office, while Trump got his own trilogy and Bush Jr warranted a quartet of tomes detailing his administration’s ultra-hawkish foreign po...