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THE PRICE OF POLITICS

Bob Woodward

Inside the Obama White House by investigative journalist and Presidential historian Bob Woodward. Based on extensive interviews with participants, contemporaneous notes and secret documents, the book gives readers a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Obama administration.
Based on 18 months of reporting, Woodward's 17th book is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile Republican and Democratic leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal government’s fiscal condition over three and one half years.
Drawn from memos, contemporaneous meeting notes, emails and in-depth interviews with the central players, THE PRICE OF POLITICS addresses the key issue of the presidential and congressional campaigns: the condition of the American economy and how and why we got there. Providing verbatim, day-by-day, even hour-by-hour accounts, the book shows what really happened, what drove the debates, negotiations and struggles that define, and will continue to define, the American future.

Bob Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first for the Post’s coverage of the Watergate scandal, and later for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Simon & Schuster has published all of Woodward's previous 16 books, beginning in 1974 with the groundbreaking All the President's Men, the Watergate reporting story co-authored with Carl Bernstein. All 16 of Woodward's books have been national bestsellers---and 12 of those have been #1 national nonfiction bestsellers. Bob Woodward’s previous books include Obama’s Wars, The War Within, State of Denial, The Secret Man, Plan of Attack, Bush at War, Maestro, Shadow, The Choice, The Agenda, The Commanders, Veil, Wired, The Brethren, The Final Days, and All the President's Men.
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Published 2012-09-11 by Simon & Schuster

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Published 2012-09-11 by Simon & Schuster

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Bob Woodward's "The Price of Politics" will test the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's skill for scoops; Woodward promises a close, inside account of President Barack Obama's economic policies, a subject in recent years of Ron Suskind's "Confidence Men," Noam Scheiber's "The Escape Artists" and other books. Former FDIC chair Sheila Bair will give her version of the financial crisis in "Bull by the Horns." Read more...

Mention in article on NO EASY DAYS, August 23, 2012: The book (No Easy Days) will go head-to-head with another blockbuster fall release: the latest nonfiction tome by Bob Woodward, which is also being published on Sept. 11. Mr. Woodward’s book, “The Price of Politics,” will look at the attempts by President Obama and the Congressional leadership to fix the economy during Mr. Obama’s first term. Read more...

A combination of miscalculations, ideological rigidity and discord within the leadership of both political parties brought the U.S. government to the brink of a catastrophic default during the 2011 showdown over the federal debt ceiling, according to a new book by journalist Bob Woodward. “The Price of Politics,” Woodward’s 17th book, chronicles President Obama’s contentious and still unresolved fiscal policy battle with congressional Republicans that dominated the White House agenda for nearly all of 2011. Read more...

Bob Woodward's "The Price of Politics" will test the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's skill for scoops; Woodward promises a close, inside account of President Barack Obama's economic policies, a subject in recent years of Ron Suskind's "Confidence Men," Noam Scheiber's "The Escape Artists" and other books. Former FDIC chair Sheila Bair will give her version of the financial crisis in "Bull by the Horns." Read more...

FOX News “Special Report with Bret Baier” Read more...

ABC-TV “Good Morning America” – News piece by George Stephanopoulos and Jon Karl, including the book cover and tease of interview with Diane Sawyer. Read more...

Fall arts | Politics, power and pundits dominate nonfiction books... Investigative reporter Bob Woodward and his publisher know how to manage and play the game, and they have geared up to unload another inside-the-White House account of Washington in action. Called “The Price of Politics” (Simon & Schuster; Sept. 11), the book — embargoed until its release date — apparently is about power and the economic sausage-making we’ve endured the last few years. It’s Woodward’s second book-length account of the Obama administration, following “Obama’s Wars” (2010), and is based on the usual extensive interviews, documents and other reporting on how the president and congressional leaders dealt with the economic crisis. Woodward is no great stylist, and one of the time-saving consequences of bigfoot books like his is that the calculated round of TV and radio interviews — you go, Diane Sawyer — will make it seem like you’ve read it and can move on to other things. Read more...

Woodward Book Details Battles Over Deficit: A new book by the journalist Bob Woodward chronicles the descent of Barack Obama’s Washington into partisan trench warfare and mines the minutiae of the largely failed negotiations between House Republicans and the White House to tame the nation’s deficit problem over the last two years. Read more...