 Details: Hardcover: 468 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (September 8, 2008) ISBN: 1416558977  Buy from Amazon.com  Buy from Barnes & Noble  Buy from Borders Books  Buy from Politics and Prose
The War Within takes readers deep inside the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. Based on extensive interviews with participants, contemporaneous notes and secret documents, the book traces the internal debates, tensions and critical turning points in the Iraq War during an extraordinary two-year period.
From: CBS: In his latest inside-the-White-House book, legendary reporter Bob Woodward reveals strategies governing the war in Iraq coming directly from President Bush and his inner circle. Scott Pelley reports.
From Charlie Rose: A conversation with journalist Bob Woodward Part 1. Part II. Reviews: The New York Times, Jill Abramson (managing editor), September 28, 2008: “An invaluable record of what happened ... this is the memorable stuff of history ... In the course of four books [Woodward] has given readers the conversations and documents we need to reach our own judgments ... they stand as the fullest story yet of the Bush presidency and the war that is likely to be its most important legacy.” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/books/review/Abramson-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&oref=slogin The Buffalo News, Stephen T. Watson, September 24: “Thoroughly researched ... some hard-hitting conclusions about Bush." http://www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/booksliterature/story/444194.html Editor & Publisher, Joe Strupp, September 23, 2008: “Bob Woodward keeps digging out the news in his books.” The Washington Post, Josiah Bunting III, September 10, 2008: “In important ways the book recalls David Halberstam’s iconic The Best and the Brightest... The War Within makes its case quietly and persuasively.” The Wall Street Journal, Fouad Ajami, September 10, 2008: “Bob Woodward is the latest to remind us, it is presidents, not their understudies, who shape the destiny of nations.” Los Angeles Times, Tim Rutten, September 10, 2008: “Brilliantly reported ... A stunning series of on-the-record interviews.” http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-rutten10-2008sep10,0,1049807.story The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly, September 9, 2008: “If you want to know about the Iraq war, Bob Woodward is the guy.” The Nation, Robert Dreyfuss, September 9, 2008: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/357371 Politico, Mike Allen, September 8, 2008: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13234.html The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani, September 7, 2008: “...A damning conclusion about the presidency of George W. Bush. ... It’s a picture of an administration riven by internal conflicts...an administration in which the advice of experts was frequently ignored or dismissed, traditional policy-making channels were routinely circumvented, policy often took a backseat to electoral politics, accountability was repeatedly evaded, and few advisers dared speak truth to power. ...” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/books/07book.html?ref=arts |
