FREE BUSH AT WAR 1ST EDITION PDF Bob Woodward | 9780743244619 | | | | | Bush at War - Bob Woodward - Google книги Woodward, the Bush at War 1st edition indefatigable amanuensis and an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, and the paper's national political reporter Dan Balz wrote for The Bush at War 1st edition earlier this year. The book notes that the administration had serious doubts early on about the war in Afghanistan and that ''they were making it up as they went,'' at one point even contemplating sending in as many as 50, American troops. It also depicts C. But while Mr. Woodward fleshes out what we already knew about policy debates within the war cabinet with lots of tiny details, the book asks the reader to take a lot on faith. A novel-like narrative, in this case, does not make the most persuasive or thorough of histories. As he's done in earlier books, Mr. Woodward has freely ''attributed thoughts, conclusions and feelings to the participants'' -- in some cases, without directly interviewing the person in question -- and while the book is told in a coolly omniscient voice, individual scenes often reflect the point of view or spin of the author's sources. For instance, Secretary of State Colin L. Tenet all clearly talked at length with Mr. Woodward, and all tend to come across more sympathetically than, say, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, who gave the author less access. Woodward puts it, ''that they could take advantage of the opportunity offered by the terrorist attacks to go after Saddam immediately. In contrast to the C. Woodward writes. Rumsfeld is shown trying to distance himself from war plans in Afghanistan, Ms. Rice is shown taking him aside and saying, ''Don, this is now a military operation, and you really have to be in charge. In the case of Mr. Tenet, however, Mr. Woodward labors to provide a positive picture of the C. Noting that the C. Woodward writes that ''the president considered it one of the biggest 'bargains' of all time. Questions about the long-term efficacy of such cash payoffs, like questions about the political future and stability of Afghanistan, are not addressed in this volume. Woodward, who prizes immediacy over analysis, rarely interrupts his forward-marching narrative with any sort of commentary that might situate events in a larger political or Bush at War 1st edition context. Many major developments and players -- like homeland security plans and the influential role played in the Iraq debate by figures like the Pentagon adviser Richard Perle -- are underplayed or completely ignored. Some of these gaps, resulting from Mr. Woodward's decision to Bush at War 1st edition only on the first days after Sept. Though there is a long epilogue detailing Mr. Powell's success in August and September of in persuading the president to work for a United Nations resolution about Iraq, prevailing though perhaps only temporarily against those in the administration in favor of more unilateral action, the book fails to document exactly how Iraq moved from the back burner on the Bush agenda to the front. Throughout the book, Mr. Woodward describes how appeals to widen the war, from hawks like Mr. Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul D. Then, in a single paragraph in the epilogue, Mr. Woodward hands us this abrupt summary of a momentous shift in foreign policy: ''In April, the president began publicly declaring a policy of regime change in Iraq. In June he formally declared that he would Bush at War 1st edition pre-emptive attacks against countries believed to be a serious threat to the United States. So how does Mr. Bush come across in this book? The president, who gave Mr. Woodward two lengthy interviews including one with Mr. Balz for their series of Washington Post articlesis depicted in terms that the White House press office itself has purveyed -- as a fearless and resolute leader. Bush is shown refusing to worry about his own safety, despite the fact, Bush at War 1st edition Mr. Woodward melodramatically puts it, that he ''was living and working at a designated ground zero. Woodward writes; ''the president wanted to kill somebody'' -- we're also given lots of scenes illustrating his judiciousness, his decisiveness, his humanitarian concern for Afghan civilians. He, not Vice President Dick Cheney, is described as the one who is clearly in control during meetings. Woodward emphasizes the president's affinity for the ''vision thing'' that his father was accused of lacking. Bush said during an interview last August at his Texas ranch. The book is also sprinkled with juicy tidbits, including an outburst by President Bush in which he says of the leader of North Korea, ''I Bush at War 1st edition Kim Jong Il! Bush's father, sent a ''back-channel message'' to the president last year about public support for the White House waning if Mr. Bush did not, in Mr. Woodward's words, take ''the harshest measures possible''; and observations from Mr. Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, describing Mr. Powell as being beyond political control, and later likening Yankee Stadium's reception of the president at a World Series game to ''being at a Nazi rally. Such anecdotes give readers the sense that they are getting an intimate, insider's look at the Bush Bush at War 1st edition House, but the book as a whole is not Bush at War 1st edition ''an early version'' of what happened, as Mr. Woodward himself acknowledges, but an incomplete, provisional and sometimes highly selective one as well. View on timesmachine. 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Bush's presidency had been beset by numerous problems. Not only was it in many peoples eyes invalid, very few people took him seriously as a world statesman. Then following one violent mindless act of terrorism, G Award- winning author and journalist Bob Woodward turns his attention to the presidency of George W. Then following one violent mindless act of terrorism, George W. Bush became a president that his country could rely on, one they felt they could trust to lead them through these difficult times. And the world saw a man who was decisive and resolute, a president who was seemingly determined to route out the people who had carried out the heinous acts. But one year after the attacks how has the 44th President of the United States fared? And what were the actual behind the scenes discussions that took place whilst the country was rocked by the crisis? Bob Woodward has been shadowing the President since those fateful events, he was allowed unprecedented access to closed-door meetings and briefings and this masterful book is a look at what really happened. Get Bush at War 1st edition Copy. Paperbackpages. Published July 1st by Pocket, first published November 1st More Details Original Title. Bush at War 1. Colin PowellGeorge W. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Bush at Warplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Bush at War. Shelves: history. Having started his career in naval intelligence and professionally associated with Alexander Haig, Woodward went on to a meteoric rise through the newspaper industry to land in the right place and the right time to contribute to the unseating of Richard Nixon. The right time was after Nixon had earned the ire of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for circumventing them in basing decisions and in the secret negotiations with Peoples' China. Ever the insider, Woodward churns these instant histories out every few months, their contents typified by extraordinary intimacy with the very principals he represents. Although the various assistants he cites may actually write these books, he gets the interviews and the presumed scoops which sell the copy.