Against all enemies : inside America's war on terror / Richard A. Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, Richard A. (Richard Alan), 1951-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qaida (Organization).

Terrorism--Government policy--United States.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Government policy.

United States.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Terrorism--Prevention--Government policy--United States.

Local Subjects:

Qaida (Organization).

Genre:

Memoirs.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, [2004]

Summary:

"The one person who knows more about Usama bin Laden and al Qaeda than anyone else in this country, Richard Clarke has devoted two decades of his professional life to combating terrorism. Richard Clarke served seven presidents and worked inside the White House for George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush until he resigned in March 2003. He knows, better than anyone, the hidden successes and failures of the Clinton years. He knows, better than anyone, why we failed to prevent 9/11. He knows, better than anyone, how President Bush reacted to the attack and what happened behind the scenes in the days that followed. He knows whether or not Iraq presented a terrorist threat to the United States and whether there were hidden costs to the invasion of that country."

"Clarke was the nation's crisis manager on 9/11, running the Situation Room - a scene described here for the first time - and then watched in dismay at what followed. After ignoring existing plans to attack al Qaeda when he first took office, George Bush made disastrous decisions when he finally did pay attention. Coming from a man known as one of the hard-liners against terrorists, Against All Enemies is both a powerful history of our two-decades-long confrontation with terrorism and a searing indictment of the current administration."--Jacket.

Contents:

Evacuate the White House

Stumbling into the Islamic world

Unfinished mission, unintended consequences

Terror returns (1993-1996)

The almost war, 1996

Al Qaeda revealed

Beginning homeland protection

Delenda est

Millennium alert

Before and after September 11

Right war, wrong war.

Notes:

Includes index.

American Book Awards, Winner, 2005

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0743260244

9780743260244

0743260457

9780743260459

OCLC:

54534078

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