{"id":36943,"date":"2024-10-11T21:23:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T04:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=36943"},"modified":"2024-10-11T21:23:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T04:23:48","slug":"book-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/11\/book-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;War&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1722979505i\/217163846.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">War<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/15441.Bob_Woodward\">Bob Woodward<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars\u2014Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency.<\/strong><br><br><em>War<\/em>&nbsp;is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history.<br><br>We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power.<br><br>With unrivaled, inside-the-room reporting, Woodward shows President Biden\u2019s approach to managing the war in Ukraine, the most significant land war in Europe since World War II, and his tortured path to contain the bloody Middle East conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.<br><br>Woodward reveals the extraordinary complexity and consequence of wartime back-channel diplomacy and decision-making to deter the use of nuclear weapons and a rapid slide into World War III.<br><br>The raw cage-fight of politics accelerates as Americans prepare to vote in 2024, starting between President Biden and Trump, and ending with the unexpected elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president.<br><br><em>War<\/em>&nbsp;provides an unvarnished examination of the vice president as she tries to embrace the Biden legacy and policies while beginning to chart a path of her own as a presidential candidate.<br><br>Woodward\u2019s reporting once again sets the standard for journalism at its most authoritative and illuminating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/15441.Bob_Woodward\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/authors\/1654625069i\/15441._UY200_CR52,0,200,200_.jpg\" alt=\"Profile Image for Bob Woodward.\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/15441.Bob_Woodward\">Bob Woodward<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.<\/em><br><br>Robert &#8220;Bob&#8221; Upshur Woodward is an assistant managing editor of&nbsp;<em>The Washington Post<\/em>. While an investigative reporter for that newspaper, Woodward, working with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein, helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to U.S. President Richard Nixon&#8217;s resignation. Woodward has written 12 best-selling non-fiction books and has twice contributed reporting to efforts that collectively earned the Post and its National Reporting staff a Pulitzer Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War Bob Woodward Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three wars\u2014Ukraine, the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency. War&nbsp;is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/10\/11\/book-war\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36944,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36943\/revisions\/36944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}