The Price Of Politics
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At the moment, we only deliver to customers in Ibadan and Abuja. If you will like to have books delivered to you anywhere else in Nigeria, please visit our konga store to make your order.Woodward pierces the secretive world of Washington policymaking once again, with a close-up story crafted from meeting notes, documents, working papers and interviews with key players, including President Obama and the House Speaker.
At the heart of the book is the high-stakes personal and political struggle between the president and the speaker, taking the reader through the electric 44 days during the summer of 2011 with a day-by-day, often hour-by-hour account as the two attempted to cut spending and increase revenue. As they struggled through the most intense moments of the crisis, each contended with powerful conflicts in his own party.
"Bob Woodward, a great reporter. What is a great reporter? Someone who never stops trying to get as close to the truth as possible. There is no truth, we all know that. No one truth. No objective truth. No single truth. No simple truth or no one simple truth either. But there are facts. Hard facts. Objective facts. Verifiable facts. And the more facts you come up with, the closer you come to whate..
Bob Woodward takes us inside the White House to explore the president's instincts and document the secret deliberations of the National Security Council, which inform them. Presented in fascinating detail and based on interviews with more than a hundred sources, including first-hand revelations of the private thoughts and fears of the president and his war cabinet, this is a vivid portrait of hist..
State of Denial examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to the US Congress, and often to themselves. What happened after the invasion of Iraq? Why? How does Bush make decisions and manage a war that he chose to define his presidency? And is there an achievable plan for victory? Based on unprecedented access to all the key players, this is contempora..
In his fourth book on President George W. Bush and his controversial 'War on Terror', Bob Woodward takes us behind closed doors, into the hidden rooms of the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and the US intelligence agencies, where the details of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were fiercely debated and eventually determined. Today, the Iraq War is a major source of contention arou..
Award-winning journalist Bob Woodward has spent over thirty years in Washington's corridors of power. In All the President's Men it was he, together with Carl Bernstein, who exposed the Watergate scandal and he has been giving us a privileged front-row seat to White House intrigue and decision-making ever since. With Plan of Attack he brings his investigative skills to bear on the administrat..
