The president seems completely detached and ill-informed about foreign affairs. But the Trump administration’s approach is so inchoate and irrational that this proves difficult. In “Fear,” he tries to explore how policies on North Korea and Afghanistan evolve. Bush and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He devoted four books to President George W. In previous books, Woodward has delved deeply into presidential decision-making and foreign policy. Woodward resists the fast-paced reporting demanded by the Internet, visiting his subjects away from their offices and testing their memories again and again. But “Fear” provides a more complete picture, based on multiple interviews with some of the president’s closest advisers. The daily press, especially The Post and the New York Times, has offered periodic and tantalizing glimpses into the inner workings of the Trump White House and the psyche of Trump himself. Another recent bestseller, “ Unhinged,” came from former White House aide and onetime “Apprentice” star Omarosa Manigault Newman, who had been fired and possibly had an ax to grind. Michael Wolff’s “ Fire and Fury” was a major bestseller but seemed overly reliant on its chief source, Steve Bannon, among other flaws. There have been other insider accounts about the dysfunction of the Trump White House and the president’s personal shortcomings, but none have been as revealing or convincing as “Fear,” which is based on eyewitness recollections, often supplemented with dates and transcripts of conversations.

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