Bush At War Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Bush at War | 2002 | Buy |
| Plan of Attack | 2004 | Buy |
| State of Denial | 2006 | Buy |
| The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-08 | 2008 | Buy |
Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| All the President’s Men | 1974 | Buy |
| The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court | 1979 | Buy |
| Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi | 1984 | Buy |
| Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 | 1987 | Buy |
| The Commanders | 1991 | Buy |
| The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle | 1992 | Buy |
| The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House | 1994 | Buy |
| The Choice: How Bill Clinton Won | 1996 | Buy |
| Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate | 1999 | Buy |
| Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom | 2000 | Buy |
| The Secret Man | 2005 | Buy |
| Obama’s Wars | 2011 | Buy |
| The Price of Politics | 2012 | Buy |
| The Final Days | 2013 | Buy |
| The Last of the President’s Men | 2015 | Buy |
| Fear: Trump in the White House | 2018 | Buy |
| Rage | 2020 | Buy |
| Peril | 2021 | Buy |
| The Justices Behind Roe V. Wade: The Inside Story, Adapted from The Brethren | 2021 | Buy |
| The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump | 2023 | Buy |
| War | 2024 | Buy |
| Parts ofThe Brethren: Inside the Supreme Courtwere adapted intoThe Justices Behind Roe V. Wade: The Inside Story. | - | N/A |
Bob Woodward is an American investigative journalist who has been an associate editor at The Washington Post since 1971. Along with Carl Bernstein, he broke the Watergate story that led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974. Their reporting was documented in All the President’s Men, which became both a bestselling book and an Oscar-winning film starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.
Since Watergate, Woodward has written or co-authored more than two dozen books about American politics and government. He has covered every president from Nixon through Biden, with a particular focus on how decisions get made behind closed doors at the White House. His four-book Bush At War series documented the George W. Bush administration’s response to 9/11 and the Iraq War, while Fear, Rage, and Peril covered the Trump presidency and the transition to Biden.
Woodward’s reporting style relies on extensive off-the-record interviews with senior officials, producing detailed accounts of private conversations and internal debates. His books have been criticized by some subjects as biased, but they have consistently hit the bestseller lists and shaped public understanding of presidential decision-making. His most recent book, War, was published in 2024.