The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 - Rilegato

Suskind, Ron

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ISBN 10: 0743295684 ISBN 13: 9780743295680

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

In his devastating new book Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind takes readers inside the defining conflict of our era: the war between the West and a growing, shadowy army of terrorists, armed with weapons of alarming power. Relying on unique access to former and current government officials, this book will reveal for the first time how the US government -- from President Bush on down -- is frantically improvising to fight a new kind of war. Where is the enemy? What have been the real victories and defeats since 9/11? How are we actually fighting this war and how can it possibly be won? Filled with astonishing disclosures, Suskind's book shows readers what he calls "the invisible battlefield" -- a global matrix where US spies race to catch soldiers of jihad before they strike. It is a real-life spy thriller with the world's future at stake. It also reveals the shocking and secret philosophy underpinning the war on terror. Gripping and alarming in equal measure, it will reframe the debate about a war that, each day, redefines America and its place in the world.

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'Explosive' Guardian 'Sensational' Daily Telegraph
'The book . . . carries unusual authority since it was written by Ron Suskind, one of America's most respected and best-informed investigative reporters. Chilling . . . Suskind's book also paints a fascinating picture of the tense, unreliable nature of US-Saudi co-operation on counter-terrorism' INDEPENDENT
'Many useful nuggets of information' MORNING STAR
'Chilling' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Valuable . . . That it works as well as it does is testimony to the author's narrative skills' INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
'Riveting . . . [Suskind's book] adds some big, revealing chunks to the evolving jigsaw-puzzle portrait of this White House and its modus operandi, while also giving the reader some up close and personal looks at the government's day-to-day operations in the war on terror' NEW YORK TIMES
'This is an important book, filled with the surest sign of great reporting: the unexpected. It enriches our understanding of even familiar episodes from the Bush administration's war on terror and tells some jaw-dropping stories we haven't heard before . . . gripping . . . impressively reported . . . Full of amazing, persuasively detailed vignettes about [the terror-fighter's] world'
ASHINGTON POST
'Living in Washington DC, I find a new political tract in my mail every other day, but Ron Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine remains memorable, and disheartening'
Alice McDermott, Irish Times 12/12

L'autore

Ron Suskind was the WALL STREET JOURNAL's senior national affairs reporter from 1993 to 2000, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing while working there. He is the author of several acclaimed books and lives in Washington DC with his wife and two sons.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0743295684
• ISBN 13: 9780743295680
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Simone Casetta; 0039 275422215; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italia