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A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone
Tim Duggan Books
September 2015
On Sale: September 15, 2015
ISBN: 0804140294
EAN: 9780804140294
Kindle: B00UQEWX8C
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Objective Troy tells the gripping and unsettling
story of Anwar al-Awlaki, the once-celebrated American imam
who called for moderation after 9/11, a man who ultimately
directed his outsized talents to the mass murder of his
fellow citizens. It follows Barack Obama’s campaign against
the excesses of the Bush counterterrorism programs and his
eventual embrace of the targeted killing of suspected
militants. And it recounts how the president directed the
mammoth machinery of spy agencies to hunt Awlaki down in a
frantic, multi-million-dollar pursuit that would end with
the death of Awlaki by a bizarre, robotic technology that is
changing warfare—the drone. Scott Shane, who has covered terrorism for The New York
Times over the last decade, weaves the clash between
president and terrorist into both a riveting narrative and a
deeply human account of the defining conflict of our era.
Awlaki, who directed a plot that almost derailed Obama’s
presidency, and then taunted him from his desert hideouts,
will go down in history as the first United States citizen
deliberately hunted and assassinated by his own government
without trial. But his eloquent calls to jihad, amplified by
YouTube, continue to lure young Westerners into
terrorism—resulting in tragedies from the Boston marathon
bombing to the murder of cartoonists at a Paris weekly.
Awlaki’s life and death show how profoundly America has been
changed by the threat of terrorism and by our own fears. Illuminating and provocative, and based on years of in depth
reporting, Objective Troy is a brilliant reckoning
with the moral challenge of terrorism and a masterful
chronicle of our times.
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