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To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
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Product Description “Essential . . . one for the ages . . . a must read for all who care about presidential power.” —The Washington Post“Authoritative . . . The most comprehensive account yet of that smoldering wreck of foreign policy, one that haunts us today.” —LA TimesOne of BookPage's Best Books of 2020To Start a War paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9/11 fear and paranoia, rank naïveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. Robert Draper’s fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to sorcery. There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion all the more damning.In the spirit of Barbara W. Tuchman’s The Guns of August and Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat, To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective scurrying for evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false—evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing. Review “Engrossing . . . Draper’s book brought a tightening to my chest. . . . [T]he most consequential tragedy of our times and an essential lesson for the future.” —New York Review of Books “In his new book, To Start A War, Robert Draper chronicles the internal deliberations and dynamics that led the Bush administration into Iraq. In doing so, Draper reminds us of the through-line between the [Bush and Trump] administrations: A toxic contempt for the government itself.” —Ezra Klein, Vox.com“The serial mistruths, mistakes and misperceptions about Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction and alleged support for Al Qaeda are laid out in devastating detail in Robert Draper’s authoritative new book, To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq . . . Draper has written a compelling narrative of just how calamitous an ideology-first approach to fact-finding can be in the White House, and why Americans were so badly deluded . . . the most comprehensive account yet of that smoldering wreck of foreign policy, one that haunts us today.” —Los Angeles Times “Draper manages to be both empathetic and ruthless in his judgements of the key administration players: an impressive feat. An urgent book.” —Robert D. Kaplan, Spectator Best Books of 2020 “Draper has performed prodigious research, including conducting interviews with several hundred former national security officials and scrutinizing recently declassified government documents . . . [He] offers the most comprehensive account of the administration’s road to war . . . Draper provides a timely reminder of the dangers of embarking upon wars that can imperil America itself.” —New York Times “The road to Baghdad is judiciously chronicled by Robert Draper in his important new book, To Start a War. Draper is a natural storyteller.” —Survival: Global Politics and Strategy“Watching Bush make oil portraits, weep at funerals, condemn police brutality, and slip mints to Michelle Obama, it’s easy to forget why Bush left office in 2009 as the least popular president since Richard Nixon. Robert Draper’s marvelous new book, To Start a War, brings it all rushing back . . . Drawing on declassified documents and hundreds of hours of interviews with key insiders . . . Draper delivers a scathing portrait . . . [with] exquisite narrative pacing.” —Air Mail “Compelling and richly documented . . . As we continue to live through the ripple effects of this momentous decision in American foreign policy, Draper’s revelatory account deserves a wide readership.” —BookPage “This authoritative investigation of how critical foreign policy should not be made . . . the definitive contemporary account of the origins of the War in Iraq
