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The War Within
A Secret White House History 2006-2008  
By Bob Woodward
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Bob Woodward once again pulls back the curtain on Washington to reveal the inner workings of a government at war. In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the tensions, secret debates, unofficial backchannels, distrust, and determina- tion within the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies, and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. This is the inside story of how Bush governed.

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The War Within, my fourth volume on President Bush's wars, focuses on the Iraq War between 2006 and September 2008.

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"[B]rilliantly reported..."
-- Timothy Rutten, Los Angeles Times
"A better first draft of history might be difficult to find."
-- Gilbert Cruz, Time
"More than mere anecdotal detail, this is the stuff of history... The fine detail is wonderfully illuminating, and cumulatively these books may be the best record we will ever get of the events they cover... They stand as the fullest story yet of the Bush presidency and of the war that is likely to be its most important legacy."
-- Jill Abramson, The New York Times Book Review
"...recalls David Halberstam's iconic The Best and the Brightest...The War Within's controversial revelations are contentions and numerous...But, mainly, it is a study of what happens when men and women, charged with leading the country in wartime or with counseling those who lead, do not tell each other what they really think."
-- Josiah Bunting, III, The Washington Post
"An extraordinary window into policy making."
-- The Kansas City Star
"The In Cold Blood of national security journalism."
-- The Nation
"If you want to know about the Iraq War, Bob Woodward is the guy."
-- Bill O'Reilly
"Bob Woodward is the latest to remind us that it is presidents, not their understudies, who shape the destiny of nations."
-- Fouad Ajami, The Wall Street Journal
Village View: Documenting the political ambitions that tarnish the office of president
Main Line Life, August 29, 2009
...week or so, but he repeated the phrase ?startling disclosure.? What Ridge seems to reveal simply reinforces what Bob Woodward found in his latest book, ?The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008.? I had the privilege of hearing ...
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The Independent, June 6, 2009
...Books were a thorn in Bill Clinton's side too. No reporter makes an administration more nervous than Bob Woodward of Watergate fame, now the unofficial historian at Washington's presidential court. Take Woodward's 1994 book The Agenda, which ...
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Cleveland Live, May 31, 2009
...And like a Lake Erie sunset, the happy ending elicits a sigh of satisfaction. Other new offerings: The War Within Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster, 437 pp.) $16 Best-selling author and celebrated journalist Woodward's fourth book about the ...
Woodward Plots to Capture Obama White House in Next Book
FOXNews.com, May 30, 2009
...who is working on a new book about the administration FOXNews.com Saturday, May 30, 2009 Best-selling journalist Bob Woodward has found the topic for his next book: The Obama administration. And apparently that has the Obama White House ...
Book review | "The Gamble": Iraq war is a long way from over
Seattle Times, March 20, 2009
...the military associated with the campaign. What Ricks didn't have was the White House access given colleague Bob Woodward for his 2008 'The War Within,' which chronicled how the surge unfolded from the executive branch perspective. Ricks ...
"The Gamble": Iraq war is a long way from over
Seattle Times, March 19, 2009
...the military associated with the campaign. What Ricks didn't have was the White House access given colleague Bob Woodward for his 2008 'The War Within,' which chronicled how the surge unfolded from the executive branch perspective. Ricks ...
What we don't know about Iraq
Salt Lake Tribune, March 14, 2009
...at war have given them heightened impact, beyond the good reporting in newspapers and magazines that preceded them. Bob Woodward's trilogy on the Bush White House, followed last year by a fourth book, The War Within , extracted from the ...
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KDKA, March 5, 2009
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Denver Post, February 22, 2009
...election, he writes, 'Bush seemed satisfied with blather. After it, he began to speak about the war seriously.' Bob Woodward's 2008 book, 'The War Within,' suggested that a review of the war and much of the impetus for the surge came from ...
The Skimmer
Time, February 12, 2009
...outcome through naiveté or ineptitude. Much of the Beltway intrigue here was reported by Ricks' Washington Post colleague Bob Woodward in last year's The War Within. Military strategies--even successful ones--are, like laws and sausages, ...
DUKE: Journalist Woodwardâs talk inspiring, thought-provoking
Benton Courier, February 9, 2009
...all knew that what our local politicos may be doing paled in comparison to what Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovered in the early 1970s with the Watergate scandal. I was reminded of this last week when I heard ...
Book Review: The War Within
Stanford Review, January 26, 2009
...Ever since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal in 1973, Woodward has been among the nation?s most respected journalists. In the The War Within: A Secret White House History ...
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