State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III - Couverture rigide

'His new book, which is shaking the White House with its revelations of a dysfunctional presidency that ignored the truth about Iraq'
front page serialisation, News Review, Sunday Times 8/10

‘It provokes reflection as well as incredulity: failure is so much more instructive than success’
Observer 15/10
'This devastating book reveals just what an utter catastrophe the Anglo-American military invasion and occupation of Iraq since March 2003 turned out to be from the very beginning'
Tribune 3/11

'Essential reading to anyone interested in the skeins of fact and fiction weaved by both the American and British administrations over their botched adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan'
Evening Standard 13/11
‘What Woodward does convey extremely well is a political community in which major foreign policy decisions are made in the light of purely American considerations, with remarkably little information about the rest of the world. The problem about the invasion of Iraq is that it was conceived by men who knew no history but their own, and not much of that’
Spectator 4/11

Simon Jenkins choice
‘Sensational, for its access to senior players and its setting out the full discord within Washington’s war leadership’
Times Literary Supplement 30/11

Stephen Howe’s choice
Independent 1/12

'After two admiring books about the White House's conduct of the Iraq war, Watergate reporter Woodward depicts the President's team as clueless, dysfunctional bumblers. A bit late, but Woodward's account of inter-office warfare is riveting'
Financial Times Books of the Year 9/12

'Histories of the very recent past blur, without obvious demarcation lines, into "histories of the present" - more often written by journalists, or sometimes leading participants. By far the largest clutch of these during 2006 has inevitably been on the "war against terror" and especially the conflict in Iraq. In another few years, many will probably be forgotten and others seen more as sources to be quarried selectively for titbits. But some are likely to last when analysts learn, with a touch of surprise, that certain "instant histories" are much better than more leisured productions. Such, one might guess, may well be the case with Bob Woodward's books on Bush's adventures in Iraq - most recently, STATE OF DENIAL’
Independent 1/12

Simon Jenkins’ choice
'Woodward's State of Denial is the more sensational, for its access to senior players and its setting out the full discord within Washington's war leadership'
TLS 1/12
'Watergate journalist Bob Woodward offered a chunky indictment of the Bush administration in State of Denial'
Metro 13/12
'Though Woodward avoids committing himself on whether America had a case for invading Iraq, his comprehensively detailed criticism of the aftermath deals a devastating blow to the US government'
Observer 1/7

‘Though Woodward avoids committing himself on whether America had a case for invading Iraq, his comprehensively detailed criticism of the aftermath deals a devastating blow to the US government’
Observer Review 1/7

‘He amasses mountains of facts that prove what we all know already: Iraq is a shambles inside a fiasco wrapped in a disaster’
The Times 28/7
‘This book is as detailed, compelling and comprehensive a record as we are likely to get’
Telegraph 4/8

'The book that is shaking the White House' Sunday Times
State of Denial examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to the US Congress, and often to themselves. What happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why? How does Bush make decisions and manage a war that he chose to define his presidency? And is there an achievable plan for victory? Based on unprecedented access to all the key players, this is contemporary history at its most gripping, and most urgent.
'As anecdote builds on anecdote - Iraq war doubters ignored, even ridiculed; naysayers sidelined; nuance and hesitation ground underfoot - Woodward whittles away at the Bush administration . . . What's left is unmistakably a failed administration'
Stryker McGuire, New Statesman
'A book which has Republicans up in arms with its exposés of a dysfunctional administration's desperate efforts to cover up unfolding disaster in Iraq. After decades close to power, Woodward is showing he has not forgotten the duties of journalism'
Guardian
'Essential reading to anyone interested in the skeins of fact and fiction weaved by both the American and British administrations over their botched adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan'
Robert Fox, Evening Standard
'Sensational, for its access to senior players and its setting out the full discord within Washington's war leadership'
Times Literary Supplement
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