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Clinton's secret wars : the evolution of a commander in chief / Richard Sale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sale, Richard T., 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clinton, Bill, 1946---Military leadership.
- Clinton, Bill.
- Clinton, Bill, 1946-.
- Command of troops.
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- Military policy.
- United States--Foreign relations--1993-2001.
- International relations.
- United States--Politics and government--1993-2001.
- Politics and government.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 491 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.
- Contents:
- Part I The Transformational President 1
- 1 The Dilemmas of Leadership 3
- 2 President of All The People 10
- 3 The Spreading of Darkness 16
- 4 A Starless Dark 21
- 5 The Present State of Evil In The World 27
- 6 An Echoing Cave of Winds 37
- 7 Danse Macabre 42
- 8 The Prince of Tennessee 52
- 9 The Courtier 59
- 10 Shaping A Secret Strategy 70
- 11 Mark of Desolation 76
- 12 The Want of Success 89
- 13 Hammer On The Anvil 99
- 14 Facing Adversity 107
- 15 To Be Used and Pushed Aside 116
- 16 The Return of Hell 126
- 17 The Rivals 137
- 18 "Covenants Without Swords Be But Words"-Thomas Hobbes 144
- 19 "The Strife of Wills, The Wars of Precedence"-Lucretius 154
- Part II Forward To Baghdad 167
- 20 "Human, All Too Human"-Friedrich Nietzsche 169
- 21 Dual Containment 173
- 22 Shadow War 183
- 23 A Real Step Up 192
- 24 Contending With Ghosts 199
- 25 The Great Game Begins 205
- 26 Operation Backfire 215
- 27 Stars That Shine and Never Weep 222
- 28 The Almost War 229
- 29 Sinister Designs 240
- 30 Under Western Eyes 249
- 31 WMD Mirage 255
- 32 Brilliant Victory 259
- 33 Good and Evil in History 271
- Part III A Special Kind of Evil: Al Qaeda in The Balkans 277
- 34 A Changing World 279
- 35 Heavy Hour 287
- 36 Glorious Death 298
- 37 High-Stakes Game 303
- 38 Caliphate 310
- 39 Eternal Aliens 318
- 40 Madam Secretary 324
- 41 Buckeyes and Razorbacks 332
- 42 Kill, Confiscate, Destroy 344
- 43 The Stakes at Chess 351
- 44 The Ruthless Truth of War 362
- 45 Breadth of Destruction 372
- 46 Sowing The Wind 382
- 47 Crisis of Fate 392
- 48 The Gain that Darkens 401
- 49 Gotov Je! 406
- 50 To Cure An Evil 415.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-464) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780312373665
- 031237366X
- OCLC:
- 316019734
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