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The Road ot the War in Iraq
Allen Lan
September 2008
On Sale: September 13, 2004
416 pages
ISBN: 0713998458
EAN: 9780713998450
Hardcover
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Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted
readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his
stories in The New Yorker, including his breakthrough
pieces on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of
Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new
revelations, to answer the critical question of the last
three years: how did America get from the clear morning
when hijackers crashed airplanes into the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon to a divisive and dirty war in Iraq? Hersh established himself at the forefront of investigative
journalism thirty-five years ago when he broke the news of
the massacre at My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a
Pulitzer Prize. Ever since, he's challenged America's power
elite by publishing the stories that others can't, or
won't, tell. In exposés on subjects ranging from Saudi
corruption to nuclear black marketeers and -- months ahead
of other journalists -- the White House's false claims
about weapons of mass destruction, Hersh has cemented his
reputation as the indispensable reporter of our time. In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind
the public story of President Bush's "war on terror" and
into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. He
reveals the connections between early missteps in the hunt
for Al Qaeda and disasters on the ground in Iraq. The book
includes a new account of Hersh's pursuit of the Abu Ghraib
story and of where, he believes, responsibility for the
scandal ultimately lies. Hersh draws on sources at the
highest levels of the American government and intelligence
community, in foreign capitals, and on the battlefield for
an unparalleled view of a crucial chapter in America's
recent history. With an introduction by The New Yorker's
editor, David Remnick, Chain of Command is a devastating
portrait of an Administration blinded by ideology and of a
President whose decisions have made the world a more
dangerous place for America.
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