From our correspondent in Washington
Rage
is the twentieth book by Bob Woodward.
It is also the most dramatic.
In 392 pages, and forty-six chapters, the veteran of American journalism paints the picture of an extraordinary presidency plunged into an extraordinary crisis.
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The story begins relatively classically, and has been told many times before.
How Trump, immersed the day after his election in a world unfamiliar to him, quickly shaped the post of President of the United States in his image.
And how a handful of professionals, devoted to the national interest, tried to provide this strange president with a framework of government, and to limit the effects of his madnesses and his mood swings, to finally fail: James Mattis, the former general of the marines who became secretary of defense;
Rex Tillerson, former director of oil giant ExxonMobil, secretary of state;
Dan Coats, the national intelligence director, and several others are either sacked without
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