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Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency
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by Daniel Klaidman

From one of the most respected investigative journalists in Washington, pulling from unparalleled sources, comes this revelatory look at the Obama administration's internal workings, showing the fractures, competing cliques, and, ultimately, the deepest divides within the president's own mind as he has struggled to define national security policy differently than his predecessor.

Summary

“[An] important book.” — Steve Coll, The New Yorker
 
“Klaidman . . . [was] clearly given extraordinary access to key players in the administration . . . Provide[s] scintillating details.” — Washington Post

How has President Obama waged the war on terror? As lawyer-in-chief, he promised to close the Guantánamo Bay detention camp and engaged his inner circle in wrenching debates over the price of liberty and security. As commander-in-chief, he has become a decisive and lethal warrior, dealing out drone strikes and death sentences to suspected terrorists around the world. Daniel Klaidman reveals Obama’s struggle to balance high-minded idealism and hard-headed politics as it plays out behind closed doors from the Oval Office and the Justice Department to the Situation Room and the CIA. Based on hundreds of interviews with men and women throughout the White House and the national security establishment, Kill or Capture is a startling new portrait of our forty-fourth president.

“A fascinating book . . . Lays bare the human dimension of the wrenching national security decisions that have to be made.” — Tina Brown, NPR

From the rear cover

How has President Obama waged the war on terror? As lawyer-in-chief, he promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and engaged his inner circle in wrenching debates over the price of liberty and security. As commander-in-chief, he has become a decisive and lethal warrior, dealing out drone strikes and death sentences to suspected terrorists around the world. Daniel Klaidman reveals Obama s struggle to balance high-minded idealism and hard-headed politics as it plays out behind closed doors from the Oval Office and the Justice Department to the Situation Room and the CIA. Based on hundreds of interviews with men and women throughout the White House and the national security establishment, Kill or Capture is a startling new portrait of our forty-fourth president.
A fascinating book . . . Lays bare the human dimension of the wrenching national security decisions that have to be made. Tina Brown, NPR

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  • Title Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency
  • Author Daniel Klaidman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books
  • Date 2013-04-09
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780544002166 / 0544002164
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.29 x 0.76 in (20.37 x 13.44 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Foreign relations - 21st, Obama, Barack
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012532017
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.325

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