

Peril received mixed reviews from critics.


The book also reveals further new details behind attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election by the outgoing Trump administration. The conversation between Mark Milley and Chinese general Li Zuocheng is one of the subjects of Peril.

The majority of the book was written as an exposé during the final months of Trump's presidency, detailing his legal challenges to the 2020 presidential election, his attempts to subvert the certification system, and his insistence that the election was stolen. Peril has two narratives: one following Trump, and the other following the campaign of Joe Biden as he defeats his primary opponent Bernie Sanders and later faces Trump himself. The book follows Trump's second Presidential campaign while interspersing details from Joe Biden's campaign. Background įollowing the publication of Woodward's previous two Trump books, Fear and Rage, Peril acts as the final installment in Bob Woodward's Donald Trump trilogy. In the speech, Biden proclaimed that Americans "will press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do in this winter of peril and possibility." This contrasts with Woodward's previous books about the Trump administration, Fear and Rage, which took their titles from Trump's comments made during a March 2016 interview conducted by Woodward. The book was published on September 21, 2021, by Simon & Schuster.Ĭonsidered the culmination of Woodward's reporting on the Trump Administration, Peril takes its title from an excerpt of Biden's inaugural address. Peril is a book by American journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa about the last days of Donald Trump's presidency, as well as the presidential transition and early presidency of Joe Biden. 2021 nonfiction book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
