Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state. Barack...
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Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy by Savage, Charlie

Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy

$86.95

Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy

$86.95
Author: Charlie Savage
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state.

Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the United States get here?

In Power Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level national security legal and policy deliberations in a way no one has done before. He tells inside stories of how Obama came to order the drone killing of an American citizen, preside over an unprecendented crackdown on leaks, and keep a then-secret program that logged every American's phone calls. Encompassing the first comprehensive history of NSA surveillance over the past forty years as well as new information about the Osama bin Laden raid, Power Wars equips readers to understand the legacy of Bush's and Obama's post-9/11 presidencies in the Trump era.

Author: Charlie Savage
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 06/27/2017
Pages: 848
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.90w x 2.40d
ISBN: 9780316286596

About the Author
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage is a Washington correspondent for the New York Times and has been covering post-9/11 legal policy issues since 2003. A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, he graduated from Harvard College and holds a master's degree from Yale Law School. His first book, Takeover, a bestselling and award-winning account of the Bush-Cheney administration's efforts to expand presidential power, was named one of the best works of 2007 by the Washington Post, Slate, and Esquire.

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