Debriefing the President Book Reviews

AUTHOR
John Nixon
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
65

Debriefing the President by John Nixon Book Summary

In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit. Beset by body-double rumors and false alarms during a nine-month search, the Bush administration needed positive identification of the prisoner before it could make the announcement that would rocket around the world.
            At the time, John Nixon was a senior CIA leadership analyst who had spent years studying the Iraqi dictator. Called upon to make the official ID, Nixon looked for telltale scars and tribal tattoos and asked Hussein a list of questions only he could answer. The man was indeed Saddam Hussein, but as Nixon learned in the ensuing weeks, both he and America had greatly misunderstood just who Saddam Hussein really was.
            Debriefing the President presents an astounding, candid portrait of one of our era’s most notorious strongmen. Nixon, the first man to conduct a prolonged interrogation of Hussein after his capture, offers expert insight into the history and mind of America’s most enigmatic enemy. After years of parsing Hussein’s leadership from afar, Nixon faithfully recounts his debriefing sessions and subsequently strips away the mythology surrounding an equally brutal and complex man. His account is not an apology, but a sobering examination of how preconceived ideas led Washington policymakers—and the Bush White House—astray. Unflinching and unprecedented, Debriefing the President exposes a fundamental misreading of one of the modern world’s most central figures and presents a new narrative that boldly counters the received account.

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Book Name Debriefing the President
Genre Politics & Current Events
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Language English
E-Book Size 1.43 MB

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Great insight. Great insight of what happened in Iraq and how wrong decisions were made along the way. It also showed a picture of people pleasers in the WH that did not want to stand up to president Bush at the time. Great Read

Will stand for the record. This book is not for entertaining purpose rather for stating the facts about what really happened during the invasion of iraq and why bush made these reckless irresponsible decisions and what was the cost and the consequences, this is not the media this came from someone from the inside Deserves 5 start

Ego. Mr. Nixon gets in the way of his story with quips about the failings of his colleague and average writing skills. He could have used a better editor to tell this story utilizing less ego and better language.

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Summary of Debriefing the President by John Nixon

The Debriefing the President book written by John Nixon was published on 27 December 2016, Tuesday in the Politics & Current Events category. A total of 65 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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