The Italian Letter How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for War in Iraq
by Eisner, Peter; Royce, KnutFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2099-01-01
Publisher(s): Modern Times
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Summary
Like Barbara Tuchman's 1958 classic, The Zimmerman Telegram, about the decoded German wire that drew the United States into WWI, this explosive account by two award-winning investigative journalists traces the road to war in Iraq by following the intrigue surrounding the forged intelligence document offered as proof that the African country of Niger was prepared to supply Saddam Hussein with uranium for nuclear weapons. As the next presidential election approaches and frustration over the continuing deaths in Iraq continues to mount, this page-turning narrative-now available in paperback-provides fresh insights for a nation hungry for greater understanding of the Iraq War and the letter that altered the course of contemporary history.
Author Biography
PETER EISNER is deputy foreign editor at the Washington Post. The Post’s coverage of the 2004 Asian Tsunami, which he coordinated, won an award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Also author of The Freedom Line, a winner of the 2004 Christopher Award, Eisner lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
KNUT ROYCE was a major contributor to three Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in three different decades before joining the Center for Public Integrity as a senior fellow. He has won numerous journalism awards, and was named by the Washingtonian as one of the two best investigative print reporters in the nation’s capital. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
KNUT ROYCE was a major contributor to three Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in three different decades before joining the Center for Public Integrity as a senior fellow. He has won numerous journalism awards, and was named by the Washingtonian as one of the two best investigative print reporters in the nation’s capital. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
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"The best account so far of one of the enduring mysteries of the Bush White House and its race to sell the Iraq war to the American public."
-Seymour Hersh, author of Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
The Italian Letter "conveys…the duplicity, subterfuge, propaganda, and outright lies that helped sell many Americans on the need to invade Iraq. Read the book and weep for our democracy."
-Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell
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