The Resource To start a war : how the Bush Administration took America into Iraq, Robert Draper
To start a war : how the Bush Administration took America into Iraq, Robert Draper
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The item To start a war : how the Bush Administration took America into Iraq, Robert Draper represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).
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- Summary
- "Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few are not haunted by it, in one way or another. Perhaps that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully for the first time to Robert Draper. Draper's prodigious reporting has yielded scores of important 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. No one is cheap-shotted 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 to drive 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- To start a war : how the Bush Administration took America into Iraq
- Title
- To start a war
- Title remainder
- how the Bush Administration took America into Iraq
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert Draper
- Title variation
- How the Bush Administration took America into Iraq
- Subject
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- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Causes
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Decision making
- Bush, George W., (George Walker), 1946- -- Military leadership
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch
- HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Even now, after more than fifteen years, it is hard to see the invasion of Iraq through the cool, considered gaze of history. For too many people, the damage is still too palpable, and still unfolding. Most of the major players in that decision are still with us, and few are not haunted by it, in one way or another. Perhaps that combination, the passage of the years and the still unresolved trauma, explains why so many protagonists opened up so fully for the first time to Robert Draper. Draper's prodigious reporting has yielded scores of important 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. No one is cheap-shotted 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 to drive 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"--
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Draper, Robert
- Dewey number
- 956.7044/310973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS79.757
- LC item number
- .D73 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- Bush, George W.
- United States
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy
- HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011)
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch
- Label
- To start a war : how the Bush Administration took America into Iraq, Robert Draper
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-461) and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1164696887
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 480 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525561040
- Lccn
- 2020001715
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1164696887
- Label
- To start a war : how the Bush Administration took America into Iraq, Robert Draper
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-461) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1164696887
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 480 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525561040
- Lccn
- 2020001715
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1164696887
Subject
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Causes
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Decision making
- Bush, George W., (George Walker), 1946- -- Military leadership
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Military Policy
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch
- HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011)
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