Peril Hardcover – 21 September 2021

A supeb book...Great lessons for the world today far beyond US borders. Hats off to Woodward and his team. He correctly draws similarities of the Capitol attack by Trumps bandits with the Reichstag moment of burning the German parliament by Hitler and then blaming the Opposition .He would also have been correct if he had compared it to the Babri Masjid assault by hooligans led by BJP RSS...which our Supreme Court rightly condemned as the darkest chapter in our history post independence .Read the book and take lessons if you want to defend democracy. For the attack on india's Constitution and freedom continues by right-wing bhakts.

The book essentially talks about the malpractices, misadventures and dysfunctional leadership of Trump and his administration, while taking us through Biden's personal and political built up for the election and the hurdles he faced on his way to become the president.I am a bit disappointed with the content though, because it speaks too much at length about conversations which otherwise could be curtailed, as it doesn't really help pique the reader's interest. It could have also helped, had the authors given some background on the conversations taking place, as I am very sure a good number of readers outside the USA wouldn't know each and every detail of the entire course of the elections. However, such an observation is purely personal in taste and it shouldn't be overlooked, this book is primarily meant for readers who have at least a basic idea of how Washington functions.In general, the book give us a good hindsight of what happens when power is abused in office and a very prudent analysis of the rise of political extremism not just in the United States, but certainly in most other countries across the globe too.

Love the read