Top-Secret Woodward Tome Gets a Name

Bob Woodward’s fourth book on the Bush White House, originally a mere 352 pages, has ballooned into 496 pages of inside dope and is due in stores Sept. 8, Politico reports. And the mystery-shrouded volume, which focuses on the Iraq conflict, officially has a name: The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008. Simon & Schuster says it plans to print 900,000 copies.

The administration granted Woodward extensive access—including face time with President Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and many others—and is hopeful that Bush will come off better than he did in 2006's State of Denial. Says editor Alice Mayhew: “There has not been such an authoritative and intimate account of presidential decision making since the Nixon tapes and the Pentagon Papers.” (More Bush administration stories.)