About this title: With unparalleled intimacy and detail, Woodward's fourth book on the Bush administration offers a gripping account of a president at war and describes a period of distress and uncertainty within the U.S. government from 2006 through mid-2008.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416558972ISBN:1416558977
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"Taken from inside sources, the book chronicles the disagreements within the White House, State Department, and Defense Department concerning the failing war in Iraq and what action to take. Generally, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, General George Casey (commander of forces in Iraq) and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice favored slow withdrawal, while President George W. Bush and freewheeling retired general Jack Keane favored a "surge" of additional troops. Recorded Books. Read by Adam Grupper."
"I picked this up in an airport, and had a few uninterupted hours to get interested. So at this point, I'm reading the book as a history of recently unfolded events, which is actually how Woodward intended. Even though I knew how things were going to turn out, the glimpse of the behind the scenes machinations was fascinating on several levels. Whatever opinion you might have had about the war itself, you had to just shake your head at some of the scenarios Woodward describes going on in the assorted agencies charged with the formulation of plans and strategies, and the ridiculous internecine back-biting that all but makes sure they fail. If this were just some game, where egos and ambitions were ultimately harmless, it could stand as a lesson in selfish personal agrandizement. But, when you consider that these decisions were being bounced around the halls of almost every agency, bureau, and department in government while an actual WAR was going on, seems almost criminal. The access Woodward was granted to the players involved here was especially interesting. There were insights presented by key participants, and not always in a way that flattered themselves. I learned about people that nobody ever hears about, that had an importance in the outcome, far beyond what you might consider appropriate to their position. All in all, I found the book very interesting, even while it was scaring the hell out of me."
"Really a bit strange to read this book while the war it references is still very much in play. Intimate look at Bush and his commitment to an ideology and his comfort with delegating his authority to other people as long as what he deems "right" is still in tact (i.e., sometimes he pushed the big decisions onto his advisers but would block out those same advisers when he felt his "mission" wasn't being properly carried out). I wonder how Woodward got the access he did because he's certainly spent a lot of time examining Bush in a fair but critical manner."
"The "War Within" is the last in the Woodward series about the Bush Administration, covering Bush's last two years and focusing on the War in Iraq. The book discusses the debates and decisions being made about the war, especially the surge in troops, who was for and who was against, and how the idea was sold to President Bush. Woodward also makes a point that the improvement in the status of the war in Iraq, while often attributed to the surge in troops, may have more significant reasons which are not often discussed, specifically the military's efforts to work with the Sunni and Shiite leadership and gaining trust and cooperation. Evidently, since he was able to maintain unprecedented access to the President and Cabinet members through four books and eight years, the Administration must have felt that Woodward's coverage was fair and accurate. Therefore, assuming that Woodward didn't have an axe to grind or a political perspective he was pushing, I found the facts he brought out to be very interesting and insightful."
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