Okay, okay, we definitely had mixed feelings about offering this book. Woodward became a jackass when his first two books in his "Bush at War" series turned out to be official Royal Court records glorifying King George.

But clearly for his legacy or out of professional shame -- two highly uncommon concerns among the prostituted D.C. press corps -- Woodward decided to come in from the cold and actually reveal some truths about the fiasco that is the Bush Administration.

Since it has been under tight wraps (and we wonder how a New York Times reporter claimed to have bought it "retail" before it was officially released), we haven't read "State of Denial" yet. But, given the advance leaks, it's quite clear that Woodward, this time around, is not just covering up the truth; he's actually revealing it.

Here's some of what the New York Times had to say:

In Bob Woodward’s highly anticipated new book, “State of Denial,” President Bush emerges as a passive, impatient, sophomoric and intellectually incurious leader, presiding over a grossly dysfunctional war cabinet and given to an almost religious certainty that makes him disinclined to rethink or re-evaluate decisions he has made about the war. It’s a portrait that stands in stark contrast to the laudatory one Mr. Woodward drew in “Bush at War,” his 2002 book, which depicted the president — in terms that the White House press office itself has purveyed — as a judicious, resolute leader, blessed with the “vision thing” his father was accused of lacking and firmly in control of the ship of state.

As this new book’s title indicates, Mr. Woodward now sees Mr. Bush as a president who lives in a state of willful denial about the worsening situation in Iraq.

Many of the people in this book seem not only dismayed but also flummoxed by some of President Bush’s decisions. Mr. Woodward quotes Laura Bush as telling Andrew Card that she doesn’t understand why her husband isn’t upset about Mr. Rumsfeld and the uproar over his handling of the war . And he quotes Mr. Armitage as telling former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell that he’s baffled by President Bush’s reluctance to make adjustments in his conduct of the war.

“Has he thought this through?” Mr. Armitage asks. “What the president says in effect is, We’ve got to press on in honor of the memory of those who have fallen. Another way to say that is we’ve got to have more men fall to honor the memories of those who have already fallen.” (End of excerpt from the NYT.)

We don't expect the book to be a complete turn around for the Watergate wunderkind who turned into a Bush hagiographer, but the title iself indicates that he is making some serious amends: "State of Denial."