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The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld
PublicAffairs
June 2009
On Sale: June 22, 2009
832 pages ISBN: 1586484214 EAN: 9781586484217 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
A penetrating political biography of the controversial
Defense Secretary, by a longtime military affairs
correspondent for the Washington Post.
Once considered among the best and brightest of his
generation, Donald Rumsfeld was exceptionally prepared to
assume the Pentagon's top job in 2001. Yet six years later,
he left office as the most controversial Defense Secretary
since Robert McNamara, widely criticized for his management
of the Iraq war and for his difficult relationships with
Congress, administration colleagues, and military officers.
Was he really the arrogant, errant, over-controlling
Pentagon leader frequently portrayed--or as his supporters
contend, a brilliant, hard-charging visionary caught in a
whirl of polarized Washington politics, dysfunctional
federal bureaucracy, and bad luck? Bradley Graham, who closely covered Rumsfeld's challenging
tenure at the Pentagon, offers an insightful biography of a
complex and immensely influential personality. What emerges
is a layered and revealing portrait of a man whose impact
on U.S. national security affairs will long out-live him.
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