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146 x 220 x 24mm
The President Battles Terrorism, John Kerry, And The Bush Haters.
The conservatives' answer to Bob Woodward offers a bestselling portrait of President Bush as he broadened the War on Terror overseas - and plunged into high-stakes political battles at home.
"They misunderestimated me," George W Bush famously remarked on the eve of his historic presidency. Fractured syntax aside, Bush was right: his detractors misunderstood his appeal to the American public, and underestimated his considerable political skills. For its compelling and intimate portrait of the self-described "war president" as he took the war on terror to Iraq - and the political battle to the Democrats and the people - 'Misunderestimated' won comparisons to Bob Woodward's Bush at War - and a spot on the New York Times bestseller list.
As senior White House correspondent for the Washington Times, Sammon was granted extraordinary access to the president and his closest confidants. The result is this fast-paced chronicle of the second eighteen months of George W. Bush's term, as the administration's focus shifted from al Qaeda and Afghanistan to Iraq and the 2004 election. Sammon's on-the-scene reporting and exclusive interviews with the president and his top advisors reveal how the White House is implementing the most profound shift in U.S. foreign policy in more than half a century. And it made headlines with its disclosures about the president's vow that Kerry would "regret" bad-mouthing the liberation of Iraq, and Rove's portrait of the White House strategy to paint Kerry as a condescending elitist.
Tracking the rise of the Bush haters, taking readers inside the Oval Office for historic decisions of war and peace, aboard Air Force One for a daring, surprise descent into Baghdad, and even on an intimate tour of Bush's beloved Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas, Misunderestimated is a mesmerizing account of a president determined not to repeat his father's two fundamental mistakes-abandoning Iraq and failing to vanquish the Democrats. It stands as an evolving and highly readable chronicle of a fascinating administration and the man at its centre.
