Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism - From Inside the Bush White House - Softcover

Sammon, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0895261057 ISBN 13: 9780895261052

Publisher: Regnery Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

In this bestselling book the author goes behind the scenes with President George W. Bush and his teams as they lead the nation on a new kind of war.

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About the Author

Bill Sammon is Senior White House Correspondent for The Washington Times, a political analyst for Fox News Channel, and the author of the New York Times bestseller, At Any Cost. An award-winning investigative reporter, Sammon covered the Gore campaign in the 2000 election (including the post-election controversy in Florida), was a war correspondent in Bosnia, and has investigated political corruption at the federal, state and local levels. Bill and his wife, Becky, live in Maryland with their five children.

From Publishers Weekly

George W., this one's for you. In Washington Times correspondent Sammon's inside account of the Bush administration's reaction to 9-11 and the resultant war on terror, readers are tendered a breathless, highly complimentary portrait of the president and an overly simplistic moral tale about the great merit and unwavering moral vision of his inner circle. What could be an extremely interesting if one-sided account is often undercut by Sammon's penchant for editorializing (Bush was "more directly affected than most Americans by the attacks themselves"; Osama bin Laden "giggled" when speaking about the attacks; and the president often "twinkles" when he speaks) and novelizing (Bush "never thought he would be so relieved to see the White House again. He scanned the magnificent curve of the South Portico...He gazed at the Rose Garden"). Nor does Sammon seem to appreciate the irony of quoting some of the president's less eloquent statements, such as: "The role of a president is to seek great objectives for the country, big goals." Sammon, author of the bestselling At Any Cost, largely writes for the converted, so the intended audience for this volume will no doubt love it. Those more skeptical of the government's policies, however, will find his narrative more hagiography than history, and will want to wait for Bob Woodward's forthcoming Bush at War, which covers the same territory from a different angle.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895261057
• ISBN 13: 9780895261052
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256