Bush at war
by Woodward, Bob, 1943- [subject, Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-]
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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2003, ©2002, 2003. Very Good. 7th printing ; xix, 382 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; ISBN: 0743244613; 9780743244619; LCCN: 2002-42829 ; LC: E903.3; Dewey: 973.931 ; OCLC: 52726634 ; "With an update on the war with Iraq" ; "...tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top national security advisers, after the initial shock of the September 11 attacks, led the nation to war. Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National Security Council - and firsthand revelations of the private thoughts, concerns and fears of the president and his war cabinet - make [the book a] chronicle of a modern presidency in time of grave crisis. Based on interviews with more than a hundred sources and four hours of exclusive interviews with the president, [it] reveals Bush's sweeping, almost grandiose, vision for remaking the world. [It] includes a ... portrait of CIA director George Tenet, ready and eager for covert action against terrorists in Afghanistan and worldwide. It [also] follows a CIA paramilitary team leader on a covert mission inside Afghanistan to pay off assets and buy friends with millions in U.S. currency carried in giant suitcases." ; VG
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Bush at War is a 2002 book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward recounting President George W. Bush's responses to the September 11 attacks and his administration's handling of the subsequent War in Afghanistan. It is an example of creative nonfiction. Much of the book recounts events in meetings of the United States National Security Council (NSC), with the major players in the story, aside from the President, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, George Tenet and Condoleezza Rice.
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- Bush at war
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- Woodward, Bob, 1943- [subject, Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-]
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- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2003, ©2002
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- 2003
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