Publisher Description
Filled with news-making revelations that made it a New York Times bestseller, this fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative tells the inside story of how the Bush administration used bad intelligence to sell—and then justify—the Iraq war.
Veteran reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn take the listener behind the scenes at the White House, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and Congress, where controversial decisions and turf battles were fought in the highest circles of the Bush administration.
Hubris connects the dots between George W. Bush’s determination to get rid of Saddam Hussein, the role of the neoconservatives in pushing the case for war, and the outing of a CIA officer, which led to the indictment of a top White House official. It’s a dramatic page-turner and an intriguing account of conspiracy, backstabbing, ineptitude, and, perhaps most especially, arrogance.
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“Very well researched and seemingly an unbiased report of how the Iraq war really got started. I have learned to hope for more from the government of the USA, but to expect very little. I have learned that a group of men and women from all classes and walks of life, all apptitudes and skill levels can ….at any point…do better than the legal eagles and well heeled men and women on the hill.”
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Steffie (4 out of 5 stars)
