Awards

• Short-listed for Helen Bernstein Book Award 2005
• Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2005

Overview

The shocking inside account that has outraged the Bush administration, Chain of Command gives the most revealing and terrifying picture yet of what really led to war in Iraq. Seymour Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose sensational reportage has revealed the stories the others can't - or won't - get, traces the chain of events that turned America from victim of terrorism on 9/11 to perpetrator of a dirty and disastrous war. Plumbing an unrivalled list of top military and CIA contacts, he uncovers an astonishing story of corruption, intelligence failures, secret Pentagon operations and behind-the-scenes deals - and provides the closest answer we have to why it went so wrong.

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9780060195915

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Reviews

""This sobering book is the closest anyone without a security clearance will get to operatives in the inner sanctums of America's intelligence, military, political and diplomatic worlds."" - Publishers Weekly ""A searing indictment of George Bush and his closest political aides . . . authoritative and well-written."" - The Economist ""We must have Hersh's kind of reporting to protect us from the institutional temptation of minimizing the gravity of exceptionally shameful acts."" - Los Angeles Times ""Stands as one of [Hersh's] most important works. . . . Hersh attempts and oftentimes succeeds in answering many of the questions that have plagued Americans."" - Tampa Tribune

Author Information

Seymour M. Hersh has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, four George Polk Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes, many of them for his work at the New York Times. In 2004, he won a National Magazine Award for public interest for his pieces on intelligence and the Iraq war. He lives in Washington, D.C. Chain of Command is his eighth book.

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