MixedThe Times (UK)Woodward and Costa treat the early days of the Biden presidency with kid gloves, and you can feel why: nobody in America’s political establishment wants anything else broken. Understandable, but this does not make for incisive reporting. So a man who may well be too old for the job, whose decisions on Afghanistan are open to all manner of questions, is portrayed with gentleness bordering on reverence ... Woodward and Costa make a powerful case that America has had a narrow escape. It leaves all Americans, in particular the Republican party, with some thinking to do.
Dan Morain
PositiveThe Times (UK)It’s a positive, supportive, slightly happy-clappy take on the incoming vice-president, but in these dismal times who’s arguing with that? Dan Morain is a fair-minded biographer with enough access...to make this more than a cuttings job. The Kamala Harris who emerges from these pages is accomplished and politically savvy, perhaps to a fault ... Kamala’s Way suggests that Harris, for all the stuff about her being a first, has got where she is by fitting in with the established way of behaving in American politics. This is not necessarily a criticism—how else was she supposed to get so far, so fast—but it raises the question of how different she would be if she were to become president ... Kamala’s Way does not spare its subject when it comes to her run.
Victor Davis Hanson
MixedThe Times\"A limited book, a flawed book, but a decent stab at explaining what no one seems quite able to explain in all the snide and snippy media coverage of Trump and his White House: why is he still there? Why do many Americans still support him? And why does he have a decent chance of being re-elected? ... Hanson is at his best on the media ... is at its weakest rehearsing the anti-Obama stuff that Trump and his supporters recite.\
