Full name: Chain of Command: the Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

Author: Seymour M. Hersh Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, History, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060955373 9780060195915 0060955376 0060195916

Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his explosive stories in The New Yorker, including his headline-making pieces on the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Now, Hersh brings together what he has learned, along with new reporting, to answer the critical question of the last four years: How did America get from the clear morning when two planes crashed into the World Trade Center to a divisive and dirty war in Iraq? In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of the war on terror and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. Hersh draws on sources at the highest levels of the American government and intelligence community, in foreign capitals, and on the battlefield for an unparalleled view of a critical chapter in America's recent history. In a new afterword, he critiques the government's failure to adequately investigate prisoner abuse -- at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere -- and punish those responsible. With an introduction by The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick, Chain of Command is a devastating portrait of an administration blinded by ideology and of a president whose decisions have made the world a more dangerous place for America. Similar books: Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks The Assassins' Gate by George Packer The Price of Power by Seymour M. Hersh The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward The End of Iraq by Peter W. Galbraith A Pretext for War by James Bamford Cobra II by Michael R. Gordon The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid The Threatening Storm by Kenneth M. Pollack Bush in Babylon by Tariq Ali Hubris by Michael Isikoff Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill A Fist in the Hornet's Nest by Richard Engel No True Glory by Bing West Generation Kill by Evan Wright The Great War for Civilisation by Robert Fisk Drift by Rachel Maddow