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It is once again remarkable what Bob Woodward is able to cull from his contacts. Tragic but compulsively readable about Trump's presidency.

It is once again remarkable what Bob Woodward is able to cull from his contacts. Tragic but compulsively readable about Trump's presidency. He credits his wife a great deal for many corrections and revisions to his direction, which is charming and no doubt merited. But so much of this book is also constructed on the transcripts of his 17 conversations with Trump, often calls instigated by DJT. The transcripts, which go far beyond what has been summarized in the press, leave an exhausting and damning picture again of the 45th president.

This is good work by Woodward, but again so much of it is direct from the horse's mouth. I would say that the famous reporter bends over backwards to try to steer Trump into a positive direction even up to August of 2020, but of course this is an impossible task even for Woodward.

Given the nature and structure I found it to be a fast and compelling read. Filled of course with many photos taken from the recent current events-not much original there for our Associate Editor of the Washington Post.

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Mr. Wind began his career as a Rural Public Health U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador from 1980-1982, where he was widely known as "Doctor Alonzo." The Alonzo nickname stuck throughout life in many countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He served decades in increasingly senior assignments.