Research Catalog

Title

Hubris : the inside story of spin, scandal, and the selling of the Iraq War / Michael Isikoff and David Corn.

Author

Isikoff, Michael

Publication

New York : Three Rivers Press, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Corn, David

Description

xii, 479 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Filled with news-making revelations that made it a New York Times bestseller, Hubris takes us behind the scenes at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, State Department, and Congress to show how George W. Bush came to invade Iraq - and how his administration struggled with the devastating fallout. Hubris connects the dots between Bush's expletive-laden outbursts at Saddam Hussein, the bitter battles between the CIA and the White House, the fights within the intelligence community over Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction, the outing of an undercover CIA officer, and the Bush administration's misleading sales campaign for war. Written by veteran reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn, this is an inside look at how a president took the nation to war using faulty and fraudulent intelligence. It's a dramatic page-turner and an intriguing account of conspiracy, backstabbing, bureaucratic ineptitude, journalistic malfeasance, and arrogance."--pub. desc.

Subject

• Bush, George W. 1946-
• Since 2001
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Causes
• Political corruption > United States
• Pride and vanity > Political aspects > United States
• Scandals > United States
• Spin doctors > United States
• Public relations and politics > United States
• Press and politics > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > 2001-2009
• United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009

Note

• "New afterword for paperback edition: The surge and the Scooter Libby trial"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A warning at the White House -- The new product -- A speech and a spy at the United Nations -- One strange theory -- The Niger caper -- The secret diggers -- A tale of two sources -- Bent with the wind -- A secret in the Nevada desert -- The final pitch -- Best-laid plans -- The missing weapons -- The leaking begins -- Seven days in July -- A cover blown -- The incurious president -- The investigation begins -- The prosecutor versus the press -- The final showdown.

ISBN

9780307346827 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007275709

OCLC

• 137331535
• SCSB-10999420

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library