Review: 'Peril' is a damning — and tedious — portrait of American democracy on the brink

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Bob Woodward's third book on the Trump presidency, written with Robert Costa, (overly) details the Trump-Biden transition with little new insight.

The book is 512 pages long, filleted into 72 chapters plus a prologue, epilogue and index. The effect is less propulsive than disorientating. In a single paragraph, the authors cover Biden offering the chief of staff job to Ron Klain and his first presidential debate with Trump.Things slow down after the election, when the authors hit their stride as they describe Trump’s attempts to hold onto power.

The result feels like an oral history told by people jockeying to burnish their reputations after years of scandal.Annette Gordon-Reed, Ayad Akhtar, Héctor Tobar, Martha Minow, David Kaye and Jonathan Rauch discuss the Jan. 6 riot and what we do about it. Then Milley makes a list — “Nazis, Proud Boys, The Oath Keepers, Newsmax” — and concludes with the phrase, “Big Threat: domestic terrorism.”It’s the quintessential “Woodward book” scene, reflecting access to the country’s most powerful people as they do something mundane. The reader is granted no additional wisdom about these threats, apart from learning that Milley has a list of them somewhere.

 

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