ANDERSON, TERRY H:

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From journalistic accounts like 'Imperial Life in the Emerald City' to insider memoirs like 'Jawbreaker',the books about President George W. Bush's War on Terror,in Afghanistan and against Iraq, could fill a library.But each explores a slice of a whole: two wars launched by a single president as part of a single foreign policy.
Now acclaimed 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 judgement in this sweeping,authoritative account of Bush's War on Terror and his twin interventions.He begins with historical surveys of Iraq and Afghanistan known respectively as the "improbable country" and "the graveyard of empires",and he examines U.S. policies toward those and other nations in the Middle East from the 1970's to 2000.Then Anderson focuses on the Bush Administration,carrying us through such events as the terrorist's attacks of 9/11,the invasion of Afghanistan and the siege of Tora Bora,the "Axis of Evil" speech,the invasion of Iraq and capture of Baghdad,and the eruption of insurgency in Iraq.He ranges from RPGs slamming into Abrams tanks to cabinet meetings,vividly portraying both soldiers in the field and such policymakers as Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice. Anderson describes the counter-insurgency strategy embodied by the surge in Iraq,and the simultaneous revival of the Taliban. He concludes with an assessment of the prosecution of the wars in the first years of Barack Obama's presidency.Carefully researched and briskly narrated,'Bush's Wars' provides the single-volume,balanced history that we have been waiting for.
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