Hyderabad:From throwing Richard Nixon out of the White House to endangering Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward has been involved in several shocking revelations in his career spanning across five decades.
In 2020, Woodward has come up with his new book 'Rage' that draws from 18 conversations with Trump between December and July. Before its release, the book has been in the controversy over its major revelations.
Major revelations from veteran American journalist Bob Woodward's book 'Rage'. So far - Rage has come up with three major revelations: Trump admitted that he downplayed virus severity, the President saved Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman after Jamal Khashoggi's killing from severe repercussions, and the third revelation claims that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un gave the president a graphic account of how he had his own uncle killed.
Woodward was born in the American state of Illinois on March 26, 1943. He grew up in Chicago's suburb, Wheaton. His father served as a prominent jurist in the town and it was believed that Bob would follow his father's profession. He was enrolled at the Yale University on naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship.
Bob did his graduation in History and English literature in 1965 and then he started a five-year tour of duty as a communications officer. When Bob returned, he was accepted at Harvard Law School. But Woodward decided not to pursue law rather he petitioned the editors of The Washington Post for an unpaid two-week internship.
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Robert Upshur Woodward with Carl Bernstein earned a Pulitzer Prize for The Washington Post in 1973 for his investigative reporting on the Watergate scandal.
His aggressive reporting during the 9/11 attacks was a big win for Washington Post as it bagged the 2002 Pulitzer Prize.
Woodward is facing widespread criticism for revealing Donald Trump's early concerns about the severity of coronavirus, only now, but the former said that he needed time to be sure that Trump's private comments from February were accurate.
Woodward has said Trump called him “out of the blue” in early February to “unburden himself" about the virus, which then had few cases in the US. But Woodward said that only in May was he satisfied that Trump's comments were based on reliable information and that by then the virus had spread nationwide.
Asked why he didn't share Trump's February remarks for a fellow Post reporter to pursue, Woodward said he had developed “some pretty important sources” on his own.
Woodward's first book about the Trump presidency, “Fear,” was published in 2018 and went to No. 1 on The New York Times' nonfiction bestseller list. Simon & Schuster was the publisher of two books this year that were harshly critical of Trump: “The Room Where It Happened,” by former national security adviser John Bolton, and “Too Much and Never Enough,” by Trump's niece Mary Trump.
