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To Start a War
How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
Taschenbuch von Robert Draper
Sprache: Englisch

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain comes the definitive, revelatory reckoning with arguably the most consequential decision in the history of American foreign policy-the decision to invade Iraq.

Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few of them are not haunted by it. Perhaps it's that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, that explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully for the first time to Robert Draper.

Draper's prodigious reporting has yielded scores of consequential new revelations, from the important to the merely absurd. As a whole, the book paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank naïveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. The intelligence failure was comprehensive. Draper's fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to sorcery. There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion all the more damning. In the spirit of Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August and Marc Bloch's Strange Defeat, To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective process that arrived at evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false, driven by imagination rather than a quest for truth-evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing.
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain comes the definitive, revelatory reckoning with arguably the most consequential decision in the history of American foreign policy-the decision to invade Iraq.

Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few of them are not haunted by it. Perhaps it's that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, that explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully for the first time to Robert Draper.

Draper's prodigious reporting has yielded scores of consequential new revelations, from the important to the merely absurd. As a whole, the book paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank naïveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. The intelligence failure was comprehensive. Draper's fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to sorcery. There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion all the more damning. In the spirit of Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August and Marc Bloch's Strange Defeat, To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective process that arrived at evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false, driven by imagination rather than a quest for truth-evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing.
Über den Autor
Robert Draper
Zusammenfassung
AMERICAN DISUNITY IS THE LEGACY OF THE IRAQ WAR: The erosion of faith in government and institutions that led to Trump began with the mishandling of the moment of national unity after 9/11

THRILLING, ASTONISHING, HORRIFYING: Draper turns the story into a twisted kind of thriller, as those who know the truth struggle to make a difference-and fail utterly.

NYT BESTSELLING TRACK: The author's last book, on the Bush Presidency, was an acclaimed bestseller-and its evenhanded treatment of Bush very much helped him secure the astonishing access he enjoyed for this book.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780525561064
ISBN-10: 0525561064
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Draper, Robert
Hersteller: Penguin LLC US
Penguin Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 213 x 142 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Draper
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,4 kg
Artikel-ID: 119671397
Über den Autor
Robert Draper
Zusammenfassung
AMERICAN DISUNITY IS THE LEGACY OF THE IRAQ WAR: The erosion of faith in government and institutions that led to Trump began with the mishandling of the moment of national unity after 9/11

THRILLING, ASTONISHING, HORRIFYING: Draper turns the story into a twisted kind of thriller, as those who know the truth struggle to make a difference-and fail utterly.

NYT BESTSELLING TRACK: The author's last book, on the Bush Presidency, was an acclaimed bestseller-and its evenhanded treatment of Bush very much helped him secure the astonishing access he enjoyed for this book.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780525561064
ISBN-10: 0525561064
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Draper, Robert
Hersteller: Penguin LLC US
Penguin Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 213 x 142 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Robert Draper
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2021
Gewicht: 0,4 kg
Artikel-ID: 119671397
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