The One Percent Doctrine

Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind takes you deep inside America's real battles with violent, unrelenting terrorists -- a game of kill-or-be-killed, from the Oval Office to the streets of Karachi.

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Simon & Schuster |
368 pages |
ISBN 9781416534334 |
June 2006

$16.99 List Price

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“ Phenomenal book. We all should read it and start asking questions.”

– Major General John Batiste

“ A must-read bestseller.”

– Frank Rich, The New York Times

“ This is an important book, filled with the surest sign of great reporting: the unexpected. It enriches our understanding of even familiar episodes from the Bush administration's war on terror and tells us some jaw-dropping stories... ”

– Barton Gellman, The Washington Post

“ A doomsday tale masked as a John le Carré thriller.... Suskind lays out evidence of success, failure, humility and hubris.”

– Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“ Riveting.... Sheds new light on the Bush White House's strategic thinking and its doctrine of pre-emptive action, but also underscores the roles that personality and ideology played in shaping the administration's decision to go... ”

– Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“ A richly detailed and layered account.... It makes for deeply unsettling reading and is a major contribution to our national conversation.... [Suskind] is a gifted and enterprising reporter and those attributes inform nearly every... ”

– Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times

“ If Bob Woodward is the chronicler of the Bush administration, Ron Suskind is its analyst.... A page-turning, blow-by-blow, inside-the-administration account.... Historians will be grateful for it as they write the many final... ”

– Michael Hill, The Baltimore Sun

“ Suskind's great achievement here is to reveal how the Bush administration short-circuited and ultimately corrupted the way America's government is supposed to work.”

– Gary Kamiya, Salon.com

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