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The Politics of Truth: A Diplomat's Memoir: Inside the Lies that Led to War
Joe Wilson
Riveting and all-engaging?. Remarkably, Bush?s White House continues to attack [Wilson].... They have picked a fight with the wrong fellow. - NYTimes Book Review
Carroll & Graf
November 0000
Featuring: Joe Wilson; Valerie Plame
516 pages ISBN: 0786715510 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Ambassador Joseph Wilson recounts more than two decades in
the U.S. Foreign Service in this look at the life of an
American diplomat, and an unabashed account of policies
that both succeeded and failed. As the last American
official to meet with Saddam Hussein before Desert Storm,
Wilson successfully parried the dictator’s threats to use
American hostages as human shields against U.S. bombing.
Yet for more than a year, he has been battling threats from
his own government, simply because he called a lie a lie. When President Bush alleged that Iraq had sought uranium
from Africa for its nuclear weapons program, Wilson could
not stand silent. He had traveled to Niger the previous
year and found no evidence to support the president’s
claim. To punish Wilson and intimidate others tempted to
come forward, senior administration officials disclosed the
undercover status of Wilson’s wife, CIA operative Valerie
Plame, to the press, putting her life in danger. Rather
than backing down, Wilson persistently criticized the way
the administration misled the nation into war. With the
addition of photographs, maps, timelines, and news
commentaries, this bestseller continues Wilson's fight by
revealing the perils bred by the war-hungry regime in the
White House.
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