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Book Title
Debriefing the President : the Interrogation of Saddam Hussein
Publication Name
Debriefing the President
Title
Debriefing the President
Subtitle
The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein
Author
John Nixon
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0399575839
EAN
9780399575839
ISBN
9780399575839
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Topic
Intelligence & Espionage, Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), World / Middle Eastern, Political, Security (National & International)
Release Year
2018
Release Date
17/07/2018
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.7in
Item Length
8.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Type
Sozialwissenschaft
Publication Year
2018
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Debriefing the President presents an astounding, candid portrait of one of our era's most notorious strongmen. John Nixon, the first man to conduct a prolonged interrogation of Hussein after his capture, offers expert insight into the history and mind of America's most enigmatic enemy. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit. Beset by body-double rumors and false alarms during a nine-month search, the Bush administration needed positive identification of the prisoner before it could make the announcement that would rocket around the world. At the time, John Nixon was a senior CIA leadership analyst who had spent years studying the Iraqi dictator. Called upon to make the official ID, Nixon looked for telltale scars and tribal tattoos and asked Hussein a list of questions only he could answer. The man was indeed Saddam Hussein, but as Nixon learned in the ensuing weeks, both he and America had greatly misunderstood just who Saddam Hussein really was. After years of parsing Hussein's leadership from afar, Nixon faithfully recounts his debriefing sessions and subsequently strips away the mythology surrounding an equally brutal and complex man. His account is not an apology, but a sobering examination of how preconceived ideas led Washington policymakers--and the Bush White House--astray. Unflinching and unprecedented, Debriefing the President exposes a fundamental misreading of one of the modern world's most central figures and presents a new narrative that boldly counters the received account.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0399575839
ISBN-13
9780399575839
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242156908

Product Key Features

Book Title
Debriefing the President : the Interrogation of Saddam Hussein
Author
John Nixon
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Intelligence & Espionage, Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), World / Middle Eastern, Political, Security (National & International)
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ds79.66.H87n59 2016
Reviews
"A damning indictment of the perversion of a major intelligence service by little minds inside and above it." -The Times of London "That a CIA officer should hold power to account in a memoir is unusual, and patriotic. John Nixon has done so with insight and style. Debriefing The President is a page turner of historical consequence -- excellent news for the republic in treacherous times." - Nick McDonell, author of Twelve and The End of Major Combat Operations "Nixon captures the psychological give-and-take of these exchanges [with Saddam Hussein] with gripping readability...and he describes the resultant verbal sparring with a sharp ear for nuance." - Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor "Mr. Nixon, the first C.I.A. officer to interrogate Hussein after his capture in December 2003, reveals gobsmacking facts about that deposed Iraqi leader that raise new questions about why the United States bothered to invade Iraq to oust him from power. These details will likely appall Americans who have watched their nation's blood and treasure wasted in Iraq ever since.... More broadly, Mr. Nixon offers a stinging indictment of the C.I.A . and what he sees as the agency's dysfunctional process for providing intelligence to the president and other policy makers.... Mr. Nixon's book comes at an extraordinary moment , when President-elect Donald J. Trump is already at war with the C.I.A...."Debriefing the President" will add fuel to the fire of the Trump-led criticism. It will also send a chilling warning to anyone counting on the C.I.A. to stand up to Mr. Trump once he is in office." - James Risen, The New York Times "Gripping...Nixon's book, Debriefing the President, gives more ammunition to the skeptics; indeed, some of its contents can only be described as sensational." - John Cassidy, The New Yorker "A fascinating glimpse of the "tough, shrewd, manipulative" leader and his views on the U.S. invasion, Iraqi history, and his own role in the Middle East...An intelligent and readable postscript to the Iraq War that will be valuable for future historians." --Kirkus (starred review)
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2016-047934
Dewey Decimal
327.1273
Dewey Edition
23

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