Bush's Wars

Name: Bush's Wars
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ISBN: 9780199975822

ISBN-10: 0199975825

ISBN-13: 9780199975822

Edition: 2013

Authors: Terry H. Anderson

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From journalistic accounts likeFiascoandImperial Life in the Emerald Cityto insider memoirs likeJawbreakerandThree Cups of Tea, the books about America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could fill a library. But each explores a narrow slice of a whole: two wars launched by a single president as part of a single foreign policy. Now noted historian Terry H. Anderson examines them together, in a single comprehensive overview.Shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush told advisor Karl Rove, "I am here for a reason, and this is how we're going to be judged." Anderson provides this judgment in this sweeping, authoritative account of Bush's War on Terror and…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction East: The Improbable Country and the Graveyard of Empires


Introduction West: The United States, Saddam, and al Qaeda,1970s-2000



Bush, bin Laden, and the Pinnacle of World Sympathy



Rush to War



Operation Iraqi Freedom



Bush's War


Epilogue: Obama


Concluding Remarks and Legacies


Notes


Bibliography


Index