20 must-read nonfiction books like Rage by Bob Woodward

Cover of Rage by Bob Woodward

Rage

By: Bob Woodward

4.17

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob …

"Trump is the wrong man for the job."

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Trump is the wrong man for the job."

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Trump is the wrong man for the job."

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. "We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't compete"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Rage by Bob Woodward , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

By: Joshua Green

3.77

Format: 342 pages,

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partn… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Green's Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • audiobook
Cover of All the President’s Men by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

2. All the President’s Men

By: Bob Woodward , Carl Bernstein

4.18

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The full account of the Watergate scandal from the two Washington Post reporters who broke the stor… read more

Similar categories in Bob Woodward's All the President’s Men book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
"The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the hist…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less to do with his ability than his Establishment c…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, p…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a demitasse cup during a formal dinner party. Bradlee was one …"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

Cover of Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party by Jonathan Karl

3. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

By: Jonathan Karl

4.28

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump re… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Karl's Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney

4. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

Similar categories in Liz Cheney's Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman

5. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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6. Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump

By: Michael Cohen

4.09

Format: 439 pages, Kindle Edition

11 hours, 50 minutes This book almost didn’t see the light of day as government officials tried… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cohen's Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael  Wolff

7. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

By: Michael Wolff

3.44

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes i… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency by Michael  Wolff

8. Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

By: Michael Wolff

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

“We won. Won in a landslide. This was a landslide.”―President Donald J. Trump, January 6, 2021We al… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wolff's Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonnig

9. I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

By: Carol Leonnig

4.39

Format: 476 pages, Kindle Edition

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books… read more

Similar categories in Carol Leonnig's I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Rage by Bob Woodward

10. Rage

By: Bob Woodward

4.17

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob … read more

Similar categories in Bob Woodward's Rage book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"Trump is the wrong man for the job."

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. "We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't c…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. "So, have you given Kim too much power…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Kushner said that Scott Adam's approach could be applied to Trump's recent February 4 State of the Union speech when he had claimed, "Our economy is the best it has ever been." The economy was indeed…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

Cover of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump

11. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

By: Mary L. Trump

3.82

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, M… read more

Similar categories in Mary L. Trump's Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Siege: Trump Under Fire by Michael  Wolff

12. Siege: Trump Under Fire

By: Michael Wolff

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Tru… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wolff's Siege: Trump Under Fire book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Philip Rucker

13. A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

By: Philip Rucker

4.10

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive insider narrative and the most fully characterised account yet of the chaos, scandal… read more

Similar categories in Philip Rucker's A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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14. Front Row at the Trump Show

By: Jonathan Karl

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An account like no other from the White House reporter who has known President Trump for more than … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Karl's Front Row at the Trump Show book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"As former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, ' You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts."

-Jonathan Karl, Front Row at the Trump Show

"I didn't become a reporter to dutifully record the words of the people in power. I became a reporter, in part, to hold those in power accountable."

-Jonathan Karl, Front Row at the Trump Show

"In a situation like that, it is the reporter's responsibility either to get an answer or to demonstrate that the politicians are ignoring the questions."

-Jonathan Karl, Front Row at the Trump Show

"It struck me that there is a reason James Madison put freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the very first amendment. If we can't speak out, if we cannot challenge those in power, there is no…"

-Jonathan Karl, Front Row at the Trump Show

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15. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

By: James Comey

4.10

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

In his book, former FBI director James Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of … read more

Similar categories in James Comey's A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Then there were the baffling, unnecessary lies. At one point, for example, the president told me that chief of staff Reince Priebus didn’t know we were meeting, which seemed incredible. The chief of …"

-James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

"The more stressful the job, the more intentional I've always been about helping my team members find joy in our work. Laughter is the outward manifestation of joy, so I believe if I'm doing it right,…"

-James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

"Ethical leaders care deeply about those they lead, and offer them honesty and decency, commitment and their own sacrifice. They have a confidence that breeds humility. Ethical leaders know their own …"

-James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

"All of us struggle to realize something Patrice spent years telling me, as I took on one position or another: "It's not about you, dear." She often needed to remind me that, whatever people were feel…"

-James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

Cover of The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John       Bolton

16. The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

By: John Bolton

3.15

Format: 588 pages, Kindle Edition

As President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room … read more

Similar categories in John Bolton's The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"All this confused press coverage reveals both the inconsistencies within Trump’s own thinking, and reporting based on second- and third-hand sources, exacerbated under a President who spent a disprop…"

-John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

Cover of Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation by Andrew Weissmann

17. Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation

By: Andrew Weissmann

4.39

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the first and only inside account of the Mueller investigation, one … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Weissmann's Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I wanna be sure you know that, at any juncture, if you think I am a distraction to the work of the office or unnecessary baggage, I do not want to be here. I’d want to go. I’d want to do what is nece…"

-Andrew Weissmann, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation

"The power to pardon is conferred upon the presidency. It is not a personal power of the man or woman who inhabits the office. ... Where a pardon is being used to protect the president personally, or …"

-Andrew Weissmann, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation

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18. Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady

By: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

3.23

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie … read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • presidents
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump by Andrew G. McCabe

19. The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

By: Andrew G. McCabe

4.16

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he h… read more

Similar categories in Andrew G. McCabe's The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The purpose of the FBI is not to support one side. The purpose of the FBI is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution."

-Andrew G. McCabe, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

"A person such as the president canon impulse and with minimal effort inject any sort of falsehood into public conversation through digital media and call his own lie a correction of "fake news."

-Andrew G. McCabe, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

"[Jeff Sessions’] major interest in any given topic tended to be the immigration angle, even when there was no immigration angle. Before disruptions of US-based counterterrorism cases, we would brief …"

-Andrew G. McCabe, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

"Fear is why the president still has a map of his electoral college victory hanging outside the door to the Oval Office. Fear is why the president makes every person who goes into his office pass by a…"

-Andrew G. McCabe, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump

Cover of Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter

20. Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

The urgent and untold story of the collusion between Fox News and Donald Trump from the New York Ti… read more

Similar categories in Brian Stelter's Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth book and Bob Woodward's Rage

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"I'm writing this book as a citizen; as an advocate for factual journalism; and as a new dad who thinks about what kind of world my children are going to inherit. This story is about a rot at the core…"

-Brian Stelter, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth

Cover of Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution by Edward        Williams

21. Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

By: Edward Williams

4.37

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

Backpacking around Australia in the year 2000, the author unwittingly found himself the target of o… read more

Similar categories in Edward Williams's Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution book and Bob Woodward's Rage

"Do you want to live, Sander?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"Scopolamine never asks for permission"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"was it even my own mind making the decisions?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

"Had I left some children behind somewhere in the world?"

-Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

20 best-selling history books like Rage by Bob Woodward

Transform Your Habits

Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

Joshua Green

3.77

Transform Your Habits

All the President’s Men

Bob Woodward , Carl Bernstein

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

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Transform Your Habits

Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

Jonathan Karl

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

Peter Baker

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

Jonathan Karl

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Peril

Bob Woodward

4.09

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