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Title: Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism from Inside the Bush White House by Bill Sammon ISBN: 0895261499 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 07 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.24
Rating: 4
Summary: The Middle Hour...
Comment: As Senior White House correspodent for The Washington Times, author Bill Sammon, is used to writing about all things politic. However, his latest book, Fighting Back, also covers some very raw emotions as well. It takes a look at the horrible events of September 11th 2001, and the ensuing "war on terror" as seen through the eyes of the President and his administration. No matter what side of the political spectrum you are on, this book, is a facinating look at how Bush and his team handled the situation in the hours, weeks, and months after the attacks..
The best part of the book, takes readers through a minute by minute account of the where Bush was, during that fateful day. As I read these sections, I began to feel as though I was right there, in the thick of it. For the most part, the book is well written, and gets right to point. There were times though, that I felt like Sammon's tone and analysis, could have been a bit more critical. I also found a few errors. At one point in the book, Sammon talks about a network morning show, but then, identifies the wrong network on which the show airs. I reccomend this book, despite a few flaws, as a testament to history. The book has 400 pages (including index)
Rating: 5
Summary: Much More than I Would Have Thought!
Comment: That this book fell off the radar screen when Bob Woodward published his book, BUSH AT WAR, is too bad, because Sammon's book is really worthwhile. I had thought that I would have to lumber through this thing to find bits and pieces of interesting information, but his story is so well told that I sped through it faster than expected..
The book begins on September 10th where Bush is staying in Florida so that he can address a group of schoolchildren the next morning. Here Sammon describes the regular operations of a President, traveling the country to campaign for education. He then describes the entire day of September 11th from Bush's vantage. How the president got up in the morning to jog, to the drive through a bad section of town to the school, to the moment he learned of the second plane hitting the trade center. Then he tells us about how James Carville and other strategy Democrats learned of the disaster, followed by Osama Bin Laden's brief bio and notorious past. He even goes into detail about Bob Beckwith, the firefighter that Bush stood next to at Ground Zero. The book then continues on into the summer of 2002 just before it looked likely that Iraq would be the next target.
Since Bill Sammon works for one of the few conservative papers in the country, the Washington Times, the book is really good at showing the folly of the mainstream press throughout the early days of the conflict. There are some great stories about how the newsmen are already calling Afghanistan a quagmire 3 weeks into the fighting. The book simply flows very well and is hard to put down. I figured I'd like it because it wasn't an attack piece, but I was surprised at how positive the entire book is. Sammon reveals a President that will do whatever it takes to beat the bad guys and protect American freedom. In short, he reminds us of the Bush that everyone admired after September 11th and thankfully the Bush that most of us still admire today.
Rating: 4
Summary: We will not tire...
Comment: ...Sammon, a White House correspondent for the Washington Times, did a great job describing the moment-by-moment drama and horror of 9/11 and its aftermath from President Bush's point of view. With the help of interviews with the President and other members of the Bush administration along with his own observations, Sammon takes us through the events in a very well-paced narrative. I thought he did a particularly good job describing what President Bush did on 9/14/01 - the day he spoke at Washington National Cathedral in the morning, went to Ground Zero in the afternoon and spent part of the evening with victims' families at the Javits Center. Sammon does a great job evoking the emotion of that memorable day.
FIGHTING BACK also takes aim at the media. In chapter 10, aptly titled "The Press Tires", Sammon writes of how it took only about three weeks of military action in Afghanistan for the media to drag out the old Vietnam analogies and to term the effort a "quagmire". He uses their own words to mock them (and they deserve it).
Also interesting are his chapters on Democrat strategists and their focus pre- and post-9/11. James Carville and pollster Stan Greenberg were in a breakfast meeting with media on the morning of 9/11 and after a lengthy Bush bash, they get the news about the attack and Carville says "Disregard everything we just said - this changes everything." It only took them a couple of months to regroup and come out with their strategy that they support President Bush in the War on Terror but trash him on everything else. Not surprisingly, when that failed they decided to blame him for 9/11 with ... Hillary Clinton on the floor of the Senate with ... a copy of the New York Post with a blaring ... headline "Bush Knew", droning one of the Dems' favorite Nixon-era lines, "what did he know and when did he know it?" Sickening.
FIGHTING BACK is an interesting look at recent events and is a timely reminder of what we've been through since 9/11/01.
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Title: Bush at War by Bob Woodward ISBN: 0743204735 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 19 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism by Sean Hannity ISBN: 0060514558 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Ann H. Coulter ISBN: 1400046610 Publisher: Crown Pub Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Breakdown: How America's Intelligence Failures Led to September 11 by Bill Gertz ISBN: 0895261480 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 25 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush by David Frum ISBN: 0375509038 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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