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By His Own Rules; The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld
by Graham, Bradley
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 1586484214
- ISBN 13
- 9781586484217
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About This Item
New York: PublicAffairs, 2009. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. viii, 803, [5] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by author on half-title page. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Bradley Graham has spent more than twenty-five years at The Washington Post in various reporting and editing assignments focused on military and foreign affairs. The author of Hit to Kill: The New Battle Over Shielding America From Missile Attack, he lives in Washington, D.C. Once considered among the best and brightest of his generation, Donald Rumsfeld was exceptionally prepared by successful careers in politics and business to assume the Pentagon's top job in 2001. Yet six years later, he left office as the most controversial Defense Secretary since Robert McNamara, widely criticized for his management of the Iraq war and for his difficult relationships with Congress, administration colleagues, and military officers. Was he really the arrogant, errant, over-controlling Pentagon leader frequently portrayed or as his supporters contend, a brilliant, hard-charging visionary caught in a whirl of polarized Washington politics, dysfunctional federal bureaucracy, and bad luck? Bradley Graham, a longtime Washington Post reporter who closely covered Rumsfeld's challenging tenure at the Pentagon, offers an insightful biography of a complex personality. In the tradition of Karen DeYoung's Soldier and Bart Gellman's Angler, By His Own Rules is a layered and revealing portrait of a man whose impact on U.S. national security affairs will long outlive him.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reviews
On Apr 24 2014, a reader said:
Bradley Graham's biography of the controversial defense secretary is very much a reporter's book. Relying heavily on hundreds of interviews, he rarely offers his own analysis or opinions. When he does, though, they are all the more powerful for them. Concentrating on Rumsfeld's second term as Secretary of Defense (which takes up two-thirds of the book), he portrays Rumsfeld as a micromanager obsessed with transforming the military,even as the war in Iraq raised doubts about the appropriateness of many of his ideas. Even a book as favorable to Rumsfeld as this one is ultimately can do no better than offer a mixed assessment of his legacy, as the evidence Graham marshals makes it difficult to disagree with his conclusions. Because of this, it will likely serve for some time as the standard work on Rumsfeld and his management of America's war in Iraq.
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- Title
- By His Own Rules; The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld
- Author
- Graham, Bradley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
- ISBN 10
- 1586484214
- ISBN 13
- 9781586484217
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- Donald Rumsfeld, John Abizaid, George Casey, Jerry Bremer, Paul Bremer, Stephen Cambone, Dick Cheney, Counterterrorism, Douglas Feith, Tommy Franks, Guantanamo, Stephen Hadley, Jack Keane, Richard Myers, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Shinseki, Paul
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