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  • State of Denial

  • Bush at War, Part III
  • Written by: Bob Woodward
  • Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
  • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins

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State of Denial

Written by: Bob Woodward
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
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Publisher's Summary

Bob Woodward examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to the Congress, and often to themselves in State of Denial. Woodward's third book on President Bush is a sweeping narrative from the first days George W. Bush thought seriously about running for president, through the recruitment of his national security team, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the struggle for political survival in the second term.

State of Denial answers the core questions: What happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why? How does Bush make decisions and manage the war that he chose to define his presidency? And, is there an achievable plan for victory? After more than three decades of reporting on national security decision making, including his two #1 national best sellers on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush at War and Plan of Attack, Woodward provides the fullest account, and explanation, of the road Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and the White House staff have walked.

©2006 Bob Woodward. All rights reserved (P)2006 Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.

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"Mr. Woodward's first two books about the Bush administration, Bush at War and Plan of Attack, portrayed a president firmly in command and a loyal, well-run team responding to a surprise attack and the retaliation that followed. As its title indicates, State of Denial follows a very different storyline, of an administration that seemed to have only a foggy notion that early military success in Iraq had given way to resentment of the occupiers." (The New York Times)

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