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The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
June 2012
On Sale: June 5, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 0547547897
EAN: 9780547547893
Kindle: B008455026
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Non-Fiction
Is Barack Obama an idealist or a ruthless pragmatist? He
vowed to close Guantánamo, put an end to coercive
interrogation and military tribunals, and restore American
principles of justice, yet in his first term he has
backtracked on each of these promises, ramping up the secret
war of drone strikes and covert operations. Behind the
scenes, wrenching debates between hawks and doves—those who
would kill versus those who would capture—have repeatedly
tested the very core of the president’s identity. Top investigative reporter Dan Klaidman has spoken to dozens
of sources to piece together a riveting Washington story
packed with revelations. As the president’s inner circle
debated secret programs, new legal frontiers, and the
disjuncture between principles and down-and-dirty politics,
Obama vacillated, sometimes lashed out, and spoke in lofty
tones while approving a mounting toll of assassinations and
kinetic-war operations. Klaidman’s fly-on-the-wall reporting
reveals who has his ear, how key national security decisions
are really made, and whether or not President Obama has
lived up to the promise of candidate Obama. Readers making
up their minds about him during the 2012 election year will
turn to Kill or Capture to decide.
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