Peter,
The "bias" of Woodward is in the eye of the reader. Here is the list of most of the books I have read or scanned since 9/11:
1. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
2. The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq by Kenneth Pollack
3. Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes
4. The Two Faces of Islam by Stephen Schwartz
5. The Age of Sacred Terror by Steven Simon and Daniel Benjamin.
6. Lies (and the lying liars who tell them) by Al Franken
7. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard Clarke
8. Bush vs. the Beltway : How the CIA and the State Department Tried to Stop the War on Terror by Laurie Mylroie
9. Bush at War by Bob Woodward
10. Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward
11. What Went Wrong? the clash between Islam and Modernity by Bernard Lewis
12. Ten Minutes from Normal by Karen Hughes
13. House of Bush, House of Saud: the secret relationship between the world's two most powerful dynasties by Craig Unger
14. Through our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, radical Islam, and the future of America, by Anonymous.
15. The Politics of Truth: Inside the lies that led to war and betrayed my wife's CIA identity, by Joseph Wilson
16. Sleeping with the Devil: How washington sold our soul for Saudi crude by Robert Baer
17. Worse than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean
18. Imperial Hubris, by Anonymous
19. What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank
20. America's Inadvertent Empire by General Odom
21. How to Talk to a Liberal by Ann Coulter
22. The Trouble With Islam: a Muslim's call for reform in her faith by Irshad Manji
23. The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
24. The World Is Flat : A Brief History Of The Twenty-First Century : Friedman, Thomas L.
25. The war over Iraq : Saddam's tyranny and America's mission / Lawrence F. Kaplan, William
Kristol
26. Hegemony or survival : America's quest for global dominance / Noam Chomsky
27. A People's History Of The United States : Zinn, Howard
28. Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort by Chip Berlet, Matthew N. Lyons
29. Barracuda 945 by Patrick Robinson
30. An end to evil : how to win the war on terror / David Frum, Richard Perle
31. The missing peace : the inside story of the fight for Middle East peace / Dennis Ross.
32. Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by Ann Coulter
33. Collapse : How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed : Diamond, Jared M.
34. Exporting America: How Corporate Greed is Shipping American Jobs Overseas by Lou Dobbs
35. The Death of the West/Pat Buchanan
36. Where the Right Went Wrong/Pat Buchanan
37. Take it Back/James Carville & Paul Begala
38. Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration/ Doug. Massey, et.al.
39. The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam/Robert Spencer
40. The Rapture: In the Twinkling of an Eye by Tim LaHaye
41. The Ezekial Option by Joel C. Rosenberg
42. Hunter Killer by Patrick Robinson
43. The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
44. Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean
45. The Republican Noise Machine by David Brock
46. The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End (Hardcover) by Peter W. Galbraith
47. State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America (Hardcover)- Patrick J. Buchanan
48. State of Denial by Bob Woodward
Now, numbers 9 and 10 did not raise a cry of "bias" from the right wingers as did #48 "State of Denial." I saw in his 3 books an attempt to report, not editorialize. Of course, one could complain that Woodward is selective in what he reports, in which interviews and which interview content he reports. However, I have not read or heard of too many crying that he misquoted them. He does not invent prose, he reports.
Read his 3 books and then let's talk about Woodward's supposed "agenda." Heck, I even know people in Utah who think he tries to be a non-biased straight shooter. |
