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Commanders
Commanders
 
This edition: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
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It is impossible to examine any part of the war on terrorism in the twenty-first century without seeing the hand of Dick Cheney, Colin Powell or one of their loyalists. The Commanders, an account of the use of the military in the first Bush administration, is in many respects their story -- the intimate account of the tensions, disagreements and debates on the road to war.

Tom WeinerPhiladelphia InquirerA great book...no one beats Woodward.
NewsweekA telling narrative of leaders in crisis.
USA TodayFew if any other reporters but Woodward could have gotten this close to the decision makers.
The New York TimesAuthoritative...a lively, behind-the-scenes docudrama...filled with accounts of secret Pentagon meetings, political maneuvers, second guesses, and roads not taken.
San Francisco ChronicleWoodward gets inside the minds of [Washington's] players to see how our leaders really think.
The Miami HeraldAs always, world-class reporter Woodward rewards his readers with the thrill of eavesdropping on the power elite.
BusinessWeekRiveting...the book moves at the pace of potboiler fiction.
CounterPunch, October 8, 2009
...newspapers Pentagon correspondent Nancy Youssef Sep. 18. Then McChrystal's assessment was leaked to the Washington Post's Bob Woodward, generating a big headline in the Sep. 21 Washington Post about McChrystal's warning of "mission failure". ...