Bob Woodward said in this books epiloge that this book was radically different than many of his prior books. Most of those books were stories of failures, mismangement, dishonesty and corruption of executive power.

He added that “War, this book on Biden, however, gave me what was often a real-time, inside -the-look at genine good faith efforts by the president and his core national security team to weild the levers of executive power responsibly in the national interest.”

We also see in this book President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to regain political power.