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Enormously rich in detail, stunning in its vivid descriptions and bold character portraits, expert in the scope and breadth of its knowledge, rich in its depth of expertise, Pentagon is nonfiction that is written with a novelist's brilliance and a scholar's keenly balanced sense of historical perspective. Pentagon is a crowning achievement for author David Alexander, who has succeeded in elevating journalism to the lofty heights of narrative history as few before him have been able to do. While there have been glimpses inside the Defense Department and the Pentagon before, no one until now has published a comprehensive and detailed report on the often arcane inner workings of the mammoth defense establishment of the United States and its embodiment in the sprawling government building that houses it. As one of the most important works of investigative journalism to have come out of Washington in years, this fascinating book should be on the must-read list of everyone concerned with America's growing list of military commitments around the world. David Alexander's Pentagon has the guts and grit and sweat and muscle of the powerful personalities that built the Pentagon from the ground up using practically nothing but sand and water, and the determination to do the impossible in record time. Like the builders of the Pentagon themselves, author David Alexander has seemingly done the impossible; he has brought to life the incredible story of the Pentagon and the role it has played from Pearl Harbor to 9/11, to the War in Iraq and beyond, to the present. This is truly a nonfiction book that reads like the best of fast-paced adventure fiction. Written by one of America's foremost fiction authors, who is also a globally recognized expert on matters of defense and strategic policy, Pentagon is a unique achievement by a modern literary master.

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