Bob Woodward

?El legendario periodista Bob Woodward vuelve a sumergirse en las profundidades del poder estadounidense para ofrecernos una crónica vibrante sobre el estado actual del mundo. Combinando su instinto unico para el detalle y el acceso a fuentes privilegiadas, Woodward retrata el escenario geopolitico contemporaneo marcado por las secuelas de la llegada al poder de Donald Trump. El relato se abre con un hallazgo extraordinario: una entrevista perdida con un joven Trump en 1989 que revela los rasgos esenciales de su personalidad y su estrategia vital. Junto a las claves internas de la politica norteamericana, Woodward revela mediante entrevistas exclusivas y documentos internos la inquietud creciente en la Casa Blanca respecto el juego calculado de Vladimir Putin. La invasion rusa de Ucrania y las tensiones en el seno de la OTAN se muestran no solo como episodios militares, sino como capitulos de una lucha mucho mas amplia por la estabilidad del orden mundial. Guerra expone con maestria las paradojas del poder contemporaneo y demuestra como las decisiones de unos pocos lideres, impulsadas a menudo mas por la psicologia personal que por la fria estrategia, pueden cambiar el curso de la historia. Woodward sigue haciendo lo que mejor sabe hacer: husmear en los pasillos del poder de Washington.

Bob Woodward retrata en este libro las enormes contradicciones, tensiones, debates secretos, desconfianzas y enormes dudas en la Administración Bush, en la última fase de su mandato, sobre la guerra en Irak. En estas páginas desgrana el espeso ambiente interno de desconfianza dentro del Gobierno norteamericano, que fue creciendo desde la escalada de máxima violencia en el 2006 hasta los estertores de la polémica presidencia Bush a mediados del 2008. En este periodo del conflicto iraquí, la Casa Blanca desarrolló una nueva estrategia secreta en la que fueron excluidos los jefes militares. El General George Casey, Comandante en Jefe de las fuerzas norteamericanas en Irak, estaba convencido de la incomprensión del presidente Bush acerca de la verdadera naturaleza del conflicto y de su profunda desconfianza sobre su mandato en la zona. La cúpula militar norteamericana también revisó secretamente su estrategia en la zona, convencidos de la falta de rumbo. En el punto más álgido del conflicto, los mandos militares llegaron a preocuparse por la posibilidad de ser acusados del fracaso en Irak. Durante meses, la revisión por la Casa Blanca de la estrategia en la zona de conflicto se mantuvo en el más absoluto secreto, condicionada por una opinión pública cada vez más hostil y temerosos

Bob Woodward's new book draws from hundreds of interviews with key administration figures, their deputies and other firsthand sources. In addition, the book is based on extensive documentation, including internal memos, letters, chronologies and meeting notes. It will focus on national security, especially the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the fight against terrorism. Woodward has structured the book to answer the questions: How does Obama govern? How and why does he decide? And how does he balance the numerous pressures of the modern presidency? Obama has learned that he is not commander-in-chief of the economy, and many of his high-profile reforms - such as health care, education and energy - have been turned over to Congress. But the president has realized he has almost total authority as commander-in-chief. Woodward thinks of the book as conceptually titled, The Crucible: Obama at War. Filled with intimate details and verbatim accounts that come from meticulous reporting, this is an unprecedented look at a young president in the 21st Century.

My reason for writing this book is quite simple. I want to ask my spirit guides to tell us of ways in which we may whilst still living in our physical bodies on earth cross over the threshold that leads into realms of spirit These are the same worlds that we will enter after our earthly deaths, and the very same worlds from which we have also descended into our earthly births.Working with his personal spirit guides, Bob Woodward seeks contemporary methods to gain access to higher worlds, the metaphysical realms of reality that underpin our existence. In comprehensible language accessible to any serious seeker of truth he presents transcripts of communications with his guides, each section featuring an individual teaching followed by questions, discussion and commentary. The messages he receives contain a sequence of imaginative, inspiring meditations that enable the reader to explore worlds of spirit. Reconnecting consciously with these spheres brings true knowledge of ourselves, allowing each of us to work as enlightened beings, with greater compassion and understanding, for the good of the whole world.Following on from his Knowledge of Spirit Worlds and Life After Death, Bob Woodwards new book provides vital insights for anyone aspiring to a greater sense of meaning and purpose in their lives.

In "Obama's Wars," Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism. At the core of Obama's Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and the United States military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an exit plan for the Afghanistan War. "So what's my option?" the president asked his war cabinet, seeking alternatives to the Afghanistan commander's request for 40,000 more troops in late 2009. "You have essentially given me one option. ...It's unacceptable." "Well," Secretary of Defense Robert Gates finally said, "Mr. President, I think we owe you that option." It never came. An untamed Vice President Joe Biden pushes relentlessly to limit the military mission and avoid another Vietnam. The vice president frantically sent half a dozen handwritten memos by secure fax to Obama on the eve of the final troop decision. President Obama's ordering a surge of 30,000 troops and pledging to start withdrawing U.S. forces by July 2011 did not end the skirmishing. General David Petraeus, the new Afghanistan commander, thinks time can be added to the clock if he shows progress. "I don't think you win this war," Petraeus said privately. "This is the kind of fight we're in for the rest of our lives and probably our kids' lives." Hovering over this debate is the possibility of another terrorist attack in the United States. The White House led a secret exercise showing how unprepared the government is if terrorists set off a nuclear bomb in an American city--which Obama told Woodward is at the top of the list of what he worries about all the time. Verbatim quotes from secret debates and White House strategy sessions--and firsthand accounts of the thoughts and concerns of the president, his war council and his generals--reveal a government in conflict, often consumed with nasty infighting and fundamental disputes. Woodward has discovered how the Obama White House really works, showing that even more tough decisions lie ahead for the cerebral and engaged president. "Obama's Wars" offers the reader a stunning, you-are-there account of the president, his White House aides, military leaders, diplomats and intelligence chiefs in this time of turmoil and danger.

In Obama's Wars, Bob Woodward provides the most intimate and sweeping portrait yet of the young president as commander in chief. Drawing on internal memos, classified documents, meeting notes and hundreds of hours of interviews with most of the key players, including the president, Woodward tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret campaign in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism. At the core of Obama's Wars is the unsettled division between the civilian leadership in the White House and the United States military as the president is thwarted in his efforts to craft an exit plan for the Afghanistan War.

Everyone with a curiosity for spiritual knowledge should read this excellent book. Peter John, psychic artistBased on direct communications with his eight spirit guides, Dr Bob Woodward confirms that we have all lived in spirit worlds before our birth and that we will enter these same realms again after our material deaths. In a very real sense, these higher spirit worlds are actually our true home, he says, rather than our present physical existence, which is only a temporary abode.In consultation with his spirit guides including a Tibetan Lama, a Jewish Rabbi, a Native American and his personal guardian angel Bob Woodward gives a detailed survey of our lives in spirit worlds before birth and after death, our relationships there with friends, family and even pets, and our connections with both good and evil spiritual beings. He also gives a commentary on a range of subjects such as reincarnation and climate change. In a final extensive and moving interview, Woodward finds and speaks with the soul of his deceased father, who offers enlightening glimpses of life after death.Whilst the authors knowledge is grounded in decades of study of the work of Rudolf Steiner with which he compares the results of his own extrasensory perceptions Knowledge of Spirit Worlds is not intended as a dry philosophical study. Rather, it has a warm, experiential quality based as it is on personal interaction with spirit entities and emphasizes the love that connects all worlds and beings together.

Whilst the concept of karma is derived from ancient Eastern religious tradition, the word is very much part of contemporary vocabulary. We speak of karma in the sense of individuals getting what they deserve usually in a negative sense. But is karma a retributive law or is it based on healing and love?In his latest thought-provoking work, Dr Bob Woodward investigates such issues in conversation with his spirit guides. Beginning with the most basic question, What is karma?, they discuss how this law of destiny relates to illness, human freedom, relationships and individual development but also to major crises on the world stage, such as the coronavirus pandemic, wars and conflict, global warming and climate change. They also examine how such key matters might relate to world karma rather than personal destiny.Bobs spiritual guides speak of the law of karma as being, filled with compassion. It is not a law which makes people or beings subservient to some almighty and dictatorial power. It is a law which is generated by love itself, and is there to bring order, recompense and compassion to all beings and their mutual relationships. Karma in Human Life offers answers to many puzzles and enigmas relating to modern-day life on earth.

John Belushi murió a los treinta y tres años ejecutado por su volcánica exuberancia (y por una exuberante dosis de speedball) en un lujoso hotel de Sunset Boulevard. Esa muerte es el arranque de una indagacion que conducira a Bob Woodward, cobestia negra de Richard Nixon, hasta las aromaticas visceras del show business norteamericano donde convergen la television, el rock n roll y el septimo arte. Para relatar la portentosa vida del humorista y plasmar la estridente fanfarria que rodeo su ascension y su tragedia, el infatigable reportero tuvo que manejar un heterogeneo aluvion de materiales (diarios, cartas, inventarios, facturas, diagnosticos, etc.) y, sobre todo, entrevistar extensamentea una caterva formada por 217 celebridades, fantasmas y medianias: la viuda del difunto, compañeros de armas y fatigas como Dan Aykroyd, actores y directores como Chevy Chase, Robin Williams, Carrie Fisher, Steven Spielberg o Jack Nicholson, prohombres de la industria cinematografica, policias, matones, traficantes, musicos, vividores y otros interesantes especimenes del submundo adherido a las candilejas.Todos sabian que el bolido se dirigia al abismo, pero sus amigos fueron incapaces de detenerlo y sus satelites siguieron proporcionandole el combustible que lo mantenia en marcha (una marcha, por cierto, tan ruidosa como rentable): la gran vida de Nueva York o Hollywood tenia esos feroces inconvenientes.Bob Woodward dibuja en este libro un meticuloso, conmovedor y en ocasiones despiadado retrato de una epoca y de un individuo que vivio demasiado y lo perdio todo a manos de su insaciable antojo.

«El poder real és—em costa fins i tot utilitzar el terme—la por.» Donald J. Trump, candidat a la presidència dels Estats Units, en una entrevista amb Bob Woodward y Robert Costa. Pavelló de l’Antiga

BOB WOODWARDS NEW BOOK, RAGE, IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AND INTIMATE TOUR DE FORCE OF NEW REPORTING ON THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY FACING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, ECONOMIC DISASTER AND RACIAL UNREST.Woodward, the No 1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trumps head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans.In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months - an utterly vivid window into Trumps mind - the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the ''''dynamite behind every door''''. At key decision points, Rage shows how Trumps responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and style he developed during his first three years as president.Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggled to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making. Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with first-hand witnesses as well as participants notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents.Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a ''''fantasy film''''. Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over Covid-19 and the economic calamity. ''''Dont worry about it, Bob. Okay?'''' Trump told the author in July. ''''Dont worry about it. Well get to do another book. Youll find I was right.''''

State of denial (Negar la evidencia) está resultando ser el más demoledor análisis desde que revelara EL WATERGATE. Responde a las preguntas más apremiantes: ¿Qué ocurrió después de la invasión de Irak y por que? ¿Cual es el proceso de toma de decisiones con el que Bush dirige una guerra con la que esperaba dar relevancia a su presidencia? ¿Existe un plan viable para lograr la victoria? Este libro es una narracion arrolladora que arranca en los primeros dias del mandato de Bush, cuando recluto a su equipo de seguridad nacional, e inicio la guerra de Afganistan y la invasion y la ocupacion de Irak, hasta la lucha por lograr la supervivencia politica durante su segundo mandato.