Woodward Plans Obama Book

Bob Woodward is working on a book about the Obama White House, and the administration is nervous. “Since the inauguration, the Washington Post legend has been quietly reporting a new book on the Obama White House,” Gabriel Sherman writes in The New Republic. "I'm in the preliminary stages of working on it," Woodward tells him. "I'm working on it and making progress." The White House has recently been circulating a memo on how to deal with reporters writing books, though it insists it is not a reaction to Woodward. With Woodward’s last book about the Bush administration having not sold well, he is apparently hungry for a big story, and his book will be about national security—“ the area where Obama has always seemed hypersensitive about being portrayed as weak and directionless.”