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Amazon.com From Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line countries of South Asia to the sands of Guantánamo, Suskind offers an astonishing story that ...
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“Accountability…is not, in every case, a virtue”
Comments from Left Field —
Mike Allen of The Politico quotes from Ron Suskind’s new book, The Way of the World:
“After the searing experience of being in the Nixon White House, Cheney developed a view that the failure of Watergate was not the break-in, or even the cover-up, but the way the president had, in essence, been over-briefed. There were certain things a president shouldn’t know – things that could be illegal, disruptive to key foreign relationships, or humiliating to the executive.
“They key was a ...
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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... If there were a Kindle edition, I would have already bought and read Ron Suskind's new The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism. I am sure that it is excellent. ...
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The Way of the World
ronsuskind.com 8/5/2008 — From Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House ...