The author has reported on national security issues for a major US national newspaper for twenty years. In 2002 he was a member of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for post-9/11 journalism.
"Damning and dismaying...As a national security reporter for the
"New York Times," Risen has produced some of this era's best
journalism on the Central Intelligence Agency and the dysfunctional
relationship between the White House and the U.S. spy community....
As one of the Washington press corps' best reporters on national
security issues, Risen has a record of being right.... "State of
War" is a welcome reminder that American journalism has a higher
purpose than shallow pandering to the lowest pop-cultural
denominator. Somewhere, beyond celebrity, there are issues and
ideas that matter. James Risen's book is an urgent contribution to
the country's common good by a skillful and courageous reporter."--
"Los Angeles Times"
"Domestic spying, demands for political loyalty in the name of
national security, investigating a newspaper's sources: With "State
of War," the Nixonian deja vu can give a reader whiplash."-- "The
Dallas Morning News"
"Explosive.... James Risen may have become the new Woodward and
Bernstein.... Fast paced, quite mesmerizing, colorful, and
fascinating."-- "The New York Times Book Review"
"Illuminating and disturbing...a monumental job of reporting."--
"The New York Times"
"Risen's book is really about the secret of many things that have
gone wrong in the administration of George W. Bush. The quantity,
and apparent quality, of the secrets revealed in "State of War"
distinguishes Risen's book from its competitors. What it represents
is a profound hemorrhaging of information from within the corridors
of secret power in Washington.... Risen becomes the mouthpiece for
a U.S. intelligence community anxious to unburden itself of the
mistakes and misdeeds of the recent past. He has not one, but many
'Deep Throats.'"-- "Toronto Globe and Mail"
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