Match BookFear: Trump in the White House
Bob Woodward
2018 · 448 pages · Narrative nonfiction
How it reads
Fear: Trump in the White House is narrative nonfiction (political investigative nonfiction, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in a big city setting, in the recent past, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are power and politics, secrets and class and society. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.
It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. At 448 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you want something to chew on
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- narrative nonfiction
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- prolific veteran
- Setting: place
- big city
- Setting: time
- recent past
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- heavy and literary
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- mega-bestseller
- Series vs standalone
- standalone
- Themes
- power and politics, secrets, class and society
- Ending style
- ambiguous
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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