RON SUSKIND is the author of The Way of the World, The One Percent Doctrine, The Price of Loyalty, and A Hope in the Unseen. From 1993 to 2000 he was the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal, where he won a Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Washington, D.C.
"A touching story. . . . Suskind is a skilled reporter. . . The moral of Suskind's story, in short, is that nothing suceeds like truthfulness." -- The Washington Post Book World"Suskind's reporting continues to make him an indispensable chronicler of the Bush/Cheney debacle." -- Tim Rutten, The Los Angeles Times"Ron Suskind does not think small. . . . A sweeping examination of moral authority in a global world and how a post-9/11 America seems to have lost its way." -- The Boston Globe"A bombshell book." -- The Today Show"An explosive new book." -- MSNBC.com"There is much more to learn from Suskind's reporting, including new evidence that Bush and other officials knew there were no WMD in Iraq." -- Joe Conason, Salon"An ambitious attempt to weave all the strands of our current conflict into a unified whole. . . . Ron Suskind's new book has earned buzz because of his arresting argument that the Bush administration actually forged evidence to buttress its case for war." -- Andrew Sullivan"Moving. . . . Mr. Suskind is a prodigiously talented craftsman. . . . It's all here: a cast of characters that sprawls across class and circumstance to represent the totality of a historical moment. . . . These hard times, Mr. Suskind's book suggests, call for a nonfiction Dickens." -- The New York Observer"Outstanding. . . . A searching, globe-hopping masterpiece of investigative journalism and empathetic prose. Amidst the 'arabesque' of richly drawn characters, Suskind reveals a few bombshell discoveries regarding the Bush Administration's irresponsibility and outright lies." -- The Huffington Post"The leading chronicler of the forty-third president." -- Esquire"Ron Suskind has traced the history of the Bush years with a novelist's ear. Now he looks at the tragedy through the eye of the victims." -- The American Prospect"Suskind is a brilliant reporter and his investigation into the post- 9/11, pre-Iraq war period makes you think you're reading about it for the first time. . . . It's damning. Give this man another Pulitzer Prize." -- Christopher Buckley, The Daily Beast"Incisive. . . . No journalist has more ably explored the dark crevices of the Bush administration's foreign policy. . . . Suskind has shown that faith -- the wrong kind of faith, anyway -- can produce disaster." -- Salon"Extraordinary. . . . If Mr Suskind is correct, laws have been broken and President George W. Bush and/or Dick Cheney are implicated. . . . This is--or ought to be--a Watergate-sized scandal." -- Clive Crook, The Financial Times"Startling. . . . Chilling. . . . A reportorial feat. . . . Suskind skillfully traces several interwoven stories of cultural clashes and cross-pollination, all of them pursuing the questions of whether America and the Muslim world can ever look past their differences and find understanding." -- Michael Crowley, The New York Times Book Review"Complex, ambitious, provocative, risky. . . . In a crowded, highly talented field, Mr. Suskind bids fair to claim the crown as the most perceptive, incisive, dogged chronicler of the inner workings of the Bush administration." -- Mark Danner, The New York Times"A vivid snapshot of a year, 2006-2007, in the life of a nation whose leaders have betrayed its high moral purpose. One of Suskind's Washington players cries into the darkness, "Can the great beast self-correct?" Can America, Suskind asks, recover its missionary rectitude? He clearly thinks it can." -- The Sunday Times (London)
Pulitzerr Prize-winning journalist Suskind (www.ronsuskind.com), author of the New York Times best-selling books The Price of Loyalty (2004) and The One Percent Doctrine (2006), here delivers a fascinating novelistic nonfiction account of people and events following the 9/11 bombing of New York City's Twin Towers. Suskind tells the story of society's strata from students to policymakers, both national and international. Suskind himself reads the preface; Alan -Sklar (www.alansklar.com) does an admirable job with the rest of the material. Highly recommended. [Audio clip available through www.harperaudio.com.-Ed.]-Deb West, Gannon Univ. Lib., Erie, PA Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.
"A touching story. . . . Suskind is a skilled reporter. . . The moral of Suskind's story, in short, is that nothing suceeds like truthfulness." -- The Washington Post Book World"Suskind's reporting continues to make him an indispensable chronicler of the Bush/Cheney debacle." -- Tim Rutten, The Los Angeles Times"Ron Suskind does not think small. . . . A sweeping examination of moral authority in a global world and how a post-9/11 America seems to have lost its way." -- The Boston Globe"A bombshell book." -- The Today Show"An explosive new book." -- MSNBC.com"There is much more to learn from Suskind's reporting, including new evidence that Bush and other officials knew there were no WMD in Iraq." -- Joe Conason, Salon"An ambitious attempt to weave all the strands of our current conflict into a unified whole. . . . Ron Suskind's new book has earned buzz because of his arresting argument that the Bush administration actually forged evidence to buttress its case for war." -- Andrew Sullivan"Moving. . . . Mr. Suskind is a prodigiously talented craftsman. . . . It's all here: a cast of characters that sprawls across class and circumstance to represent the totality of a historical moment. . . . These hard times, Mr. Suskind's book suggests, call for a nonfiction Dickens." -- The New York Observer"Outstanding. . . . A searching, globe-hopping masterpiece of investigative journalism and empathetic prose. Amidst the 'arabesque' of richly drawn characters, Suskind reveals a few bombshell discoveries regarding the Bush Administration's irresponsibility and outright lies." -- The Huffington Post"The leading chronicler of the forty-third president." -- Esquire"Ron Suskind has traced the history of the Bush years with a novelist's ear. Now he looks at the tragedy through the eye of the victims." -- The American Prospect"Suskind is a brilliant reporter and his investigation into the post- 9/11, pre-Iraq war period makes you think you're reading about it for the first time. . . . It's damning. Give this man another Pulitzer Prize." -- Christopher Buckley, The Daily Beast"Incisive. . . . No journalist has more ably explored the dark crevices of the Bush administration's foreign policy. . . . Suskind has shown that faith -- the wrong kind of faith, anyway -- can produce disaster." -- Salon"Extraordinary. . . . If Mr Suskind is correct, laws have been broken and President George W. Bush and/or Dick Cheney are implicated. . . . This is--or ought to be--a Watergate-sized scandal." -- Clive Crook, The Financial Times"Startling. . . . Chilling. . . . A reportorial feat. . . . Suskind skillfully traces several interwoven stories of cultural clashes and cross-pollination, all of them pursuing the questions of whether America and the Muslim world can ever look past their differences and find understanding." -- Michael Crowley, The New York Times Book Review"Complex, ambitious, provocative, risky. . . . In a crowded, highly talented field, Mr. Suskind bids fair to claim the crown as the most perceptive, incisive, dogged chronicler of the inner workings of the Bush administration." -- Mark Danner, The New York Times"A vivid snapshot of a year, 2006-2007, in the life of a nation whose leaders have betrayed its high moral purpose. One of Suskind's Washington players cries into the darkness, "Can the great beast self-correct?" Can America, Suskind asks, recover its missionary rectitude? He clearly thinks it can." -- The Sunday Times (London)
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