This series delves into the inner workings of high-stakes American politics, particularly during pivotal crisis moments that have shaped modern history. With remarkable immediacy and journalistic rigor, it captures the crucial decisions and dramatic events impacting the global stage. Readers are drawn into the whirlwind of action, where reality rivals a suspenseful thriller, offering a glimpse into the complex mechanisms of statecraft.
Investigating President's Bush's response to the earth-shattering events of September 11, this behind-the-scenes story tells how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers led the nation to war on Iraq.
Award-winning journalist Bob Woodward has spent over thirty years in Washington's corridors of power. In All the President's Men it was he, together with Carl Bernstein, who exposed the Watergate scandal and he has been giving us a privileged front-row seat to White-House intrigue and decision-making ever since. With PLAN OF ATTACK he brings his investigative skills to bear on the administration of George W. Bush, and the build-up to war in Iraq. What emerges is a fascinating and intimate portrait of the leading powers in Bush's war council and their allies overseas as they prepare their pre-emptive attack and change the course of history.
After two #1 "New York Times" bestsellers on the Bush administrations wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Woodwards latest book on the Bush White House again provides an unparalleled, intimate account of the present state of national security decision-making.
Bob Woodward once again pulls back the curtain on Washington to reveal the inner workings of a government at war. In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the tensions, secret debates, unofficial backchannels, distrust, and determina- tion within the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies, and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. This is the inside story of how Bush governed.