INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Journalist Bob Woodward poses for a portrait at his home in Washington on Friday November 20, 2015In the worldwide capital of leaks and
anonymous dishing that is Washington, secrets can be almost impossible to keep.But somehow over the past 19 months, the fact that America's
most famous investigative journalist was quietly chipping away at a book that delves into the dysfunctions of President Donald Trump's White
House remained largely unknown
On Monday night, that veil of secrecy will be lifted when Simon Schuster plans to announce that it will publish "Fear: Trump in the White
House" by Bob Woodward on Sept
11, according to a copy of the release obtained by The Washington Post.In the book, Woodward's 19th, the 75-year-old journalist and author
"reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on
major foreign and domestic policies," the publisher's release states.The expected tenor of the book is underscored by its unsettling cover,
an extreme close-up of a squinty-eyed Trump depicted through a gauzy red filter
The hush-hush project derives its title from an offhand remark that then-candidate Trump made in an interview with Woodward and Washington
Post political reporter Robert Costa in April 2016
Costa asked Trump whether he agreed with a statement by then-President Barack Obama, who had said in an Atlantic magazine interview that
"real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence."The expected tenor of the book by Bob Woodward is underscored
by its unsettling cover, an extreme close-up of a squinty-eyed Trump depicted through a gauzy red filterAt first Trump seemed to agree,
saying: "Well, I think there's a certain truth to that
Real power is through respect."But then he added a personal twist: "Real power is, I don't even want to use the word: 'Fear.' "Woodward, who
declined to be quoted for this article, has privately described the remark as "an almost Shakespearean aside."Woodward, an associate editor
at The Washington Post, is deeply embedded in the cultural fabric of American journalism
He is famed for his Pulitzer-winning reporting at The Post with Carl Bernstein on the deceptions and misdeeds of President Richard Nixon in
the 1970s that eventually led to the resignation of the 37th president of the United States
Their work was immortalized in the film "All the President's Men," in which Robert Redford played Woodward and Dustin Hoffman portrayed
Bernstein.A casual observer of American political news might be excused for thinking the 1970s never ended
Not only is Woodward publishing a Trump book, but Bernstein is also appearing regularly on American television screens after recently
co-writing a scoopy piece for CNN that asserted Trump's attorney Michael Cohen is willing to testify that Trump was aware in advance of a
now-infamous meeting between Donald Trump Jr
and Russians offering dirt of Hillary Clinton.Woodward is one of the best-selling American nonfiction authors of the modern era, and the
publication of his books generally become news events in their own right
As usual, Woodward was represented by Robert Barnett, the powerhouse Washington attorney who also has negotiated literary contracts for
former presidents Obama, George W
Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as Trump's 2016 presidential campaign opponent, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.Woodward's most
recent work, "The Last of the President's Men," chronicled the story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who revealed the existence of
an Oval Office taping system
But with his new book, "Fear," Woodward will be returning to the sort of endeavor for which he has been best known during his long career:
real-time reporting on American power and the presidency.His previous works on American presidents, including books about George W
Bush and Obama, have tended to focus primarily on single, all-important decisions, such as whether to engage in foreign wars
"Fear" is expected to be a broader examination of the presidency."Fear" will add to the avalanche of books that focus on the Trump
presidency or issues related to his time in office
Among those who have generated headlines are former FBI director James Comey's, "A Higher Loyalty," Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury: Inside
the Trump White House," and the just-released book by Trump's former press secretary, Sean Spicer: "The Briefing: Politics, the Press and
the President."Woodward's new book draws on the hallmarks of his approach to investigative reporting, pulling details from "hundreds of
hours of interviews with firsthand sources, contemporaneous meeting notes, files, documents and personal diaries," according to his
"FEAR brings to light the explosive debates that drive decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White
House residence."Jonathan Karp, president and publisher of Simon Schuster, touted the work as "the most acute and penetrating portrait of a
sitting president ever published during the first years of an administration."While working on the book, Woodward has kept a lower profile
than usual, limiting cable news appearances and attempting to stay out of the public eye
Instead, the author has told friends, he's gone back to some of the signature moves of his youthful reporting days.Late at night, he's been
