Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory behind-the-scenes story of
three wars—Ukraine the Middle East and the struggle for the American Presidency. War is
an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics
and American history. 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. With unrivaled inside-the-room reporting
Woodward shows President Biden’s 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. 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. 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. War 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. Woodward’s reporting once again sets the standard for journalism at
its most authoritative and illuminating.
