An account based on interviews with top officials surveys the first eighteen months of the Bush administration to consider how the president and his advisors are responding to wartime circumstances and a faltering economy.
Bush at War Series
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.
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Based on interviews with 75 key participants and more than three and a half hours of exclusive interviews with President Bush, this text examines how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq
"A secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006 forecasted a more violent 2007 in Iraq, contradicting the repeated optimistic statements of President Bush. This book examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to Congress, and often to themselves. In this detailed inside story of a war-torn White House, Woodward answers the core questions: What happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why? How does Bush make decisions and manage a war that he chose to define his presidency? And is there an achievable plan for victory?"--From the publisher's description
The War Within
- 487 pages
- 18 hours of reading
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.