Bob Woodward will release an audiobook containing more than eight hours of his interviews with former President Donald Trump, Simon & Schuster Audio announced in a news release.
The journalist’s The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews With President Donald Trump will be available on Oct. 25, the publisher said.
“Featuring more than eight hours of Woodward/Trump conversations, The Trump Tapes is as historically important as the Frost/Nixon interviews,” Simon & Schuster said. “In this up-close, unvarnished self-portrait of Trump and his presidency, listeners will hear Trump as Woodward did: profane, incautious, divisive, and deceptive, but also engaging and entertaining, ever the host and the salesman, trying to sell his presidency to win Woodward over.”
Woodward, who along with Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal, has written about Trump in three books: Fear: Trump in the White House, Rage, and, most recently, Peril, co-written with Robert Costa. Trump has criticized Woodward in the past, at one point saying the journalist “only writes bad books.”
“Re-listening to the tapes earlier this year, I was stunned by their relevance to understanding who Trump is,” Woodward said in a statement. “I hope when you listen you feel you are in the Oval Office with me as Trump slams the Resolute Desk, or playing concierge at Mar-a-Lago.”
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
