{"product_id":"to-start-a-war-robert-draper-9780525561064","title":"To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Essential . . . one for the ages . . . a must read for all who care about presidential power.\" --The Washington Post \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Authoritative . . . The most comprehensive account yet of that smoldering wreck of foreign policy, one that haunts us today.\" --\u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of\u003ci\u003e BookPage\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2020 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Start a War\u003c\/i\u003e paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9\/11 fear and paranoia, rank naïveté, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idées fixes who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was true. Robert Draper's fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to sorcery. There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion all the more damning. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the spirit of Barbara W. Tuchman's \u003ci\u003eThe Guns of August \u003c\/i\u003eand Marc Bloch's \u003ci\u003eStrange Defeat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo Start A War\u003c\/i\u003e will stand as the definitive account of a collective scurrying for evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely false--evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows no signs of ebbing.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Draper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0525561064\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525561064\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Robert Draper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44051336823039,"sku":"9780525561064","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2ecbb70f-c40b-4bc9-b93f-bee7dcc8f047.jpg?v=1685012486","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/to-start-a-war-robert-draper-9780525561064","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}