To Start a War : How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq

To Start a War : How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq

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27 Jul, 2021

"Essential . . . one for the ages . . . a must read for all who care about presidential power." --The Washington Post "Authoritative . . . The most compreh ...

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ISBN-10:

0525561064

ISBN-13:

9780525561064

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Dimensions

8.30 X 5.40 X 1.10 inches

Language

English

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"Essential . . . one for the ages . . . a must read for all who care about presidential power." --The Washington Post

"Authoritative . . . The most comprehensive account yet of that smoldering wreck of foreign policy, one that haunts us today." --LA Times

One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020

To Start a War paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank naïveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. Robert Draper's fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to sorcery. There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion all the more damning.

In the spirit of Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August and Marc Bloch's Strange Defeat, To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective scurrying for evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false--evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing.

Product Details

ISBN-10

:0525561064

ISBN-13

:9780525561064

Publisher

:Penguin Publishing Group

Publication date

: 27 Jul, 2021

Category

: Political Science

Format

:PAPERBACK

Language

:English

Reading Level

: All

Dimension

: 8.30 X 5.40 X 1.10 inches

Weight

:408 g

About the Author

Robert Draper is a writer at large for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing writer to National Geographic. He is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. He lives in Washington, DC.

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