false 5375814 3 Readers of <i>The New York Times</i> know David Sanger as one of the most trusted correspondents in Washington, one to whom presidents, secretaries of state, and foreign leaders talk with unusual candor. Now, with a historian’s sweep and an insider’s eye for telling detail, Sanger delivers an urgent intelligence briefing on the world America faces. <BR/> <BR/> In a riveting narrative, <i>The Inheritance</i> describes the huge costs of distraction and lost opportunities at home and abroad as Iraq soaked up manpower, money, and intelligence capabilities. The 2008 market collapse further undermined American leadership, leaving the new president with a set of challenges unparalleled since Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the Oval Office. <BR/> <BR/> Sanger takes readers into the White House Situation Room to reveal how Washington penetrated Tehran’s nuclear secrets, leading President Bush, in his last year, to secretly step up covert actions in a desperate effort to delay an Iranian bomb. Meanwhile, his intelligence chiefs made repeated secret missions to Pakistan as they tried to stem a growing insurgency and cope with an ally who was also aiding the enemy–while receiving billions in American military aid. Now the new president faces critical choices: Is it better to learn to live with a nuclear Iran or risk overt or covert confrontation? Is it worth sending U.S. forces deep into Pakistani territory at the risk of undermining an unstable Pakistani government sitting on a nuclear arsenal? It is a race against time and against a new effort by Islamic extremists–never before disclosed–to quietly infiltrate Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program. <BR/> <BR/> “Bush wrote a lot of checks,” one senior intelligence official told Sanger, “that the next president is going to have to cash.” <BR/> <BR/> <I>The Inheritance</I> takes readers to Afghanistan, where Bush never delivered on his promises for a Marshall Plan to rebuild the country, paving the way for the Taliban’s return. It examines the chilling calculus of North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il, who built actual weapons of mass destruction in the same months that the Bush administration pursued phantoms in Iraq, then sold his nuclear technology in the Middle East in an operation the American intelligence apparatus missed. And it explores how China became one of the real winners of the Iraq war, using the past eight years to expand its influence in Asia, and lock up oil supplies in Africa while Washington was bogged down in the Middle East. Yet Sanger, a former foreign correspondent in Asia, sees enormous potential for the next administration to forge a partnership with Beijing on energy and the environment. <BR/> <BR/> At once a secret history of our foreign policy misadventures and a lucid explanation of the opportunities they create, <I>The Inheritance</I> is vital reading for anyone trying to understand the extraordinary challenges that lie ahead. 5443329 20 1 2009 The Inheritance: The Global Challenges to American Power total:55|5:13|4:27|3:13|2:2|1:0| 55 216 158 18 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 15:53:43 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 16:27:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 23:47:58 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 00:34:11 -0700 2009
Author is a NYT reporter and is extremely critical of the Bush administration; that said, his analysis of the result...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 16:24:44 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 17:06:04 -0700 2009 Iraq F; Pakistan F; North Korea F; Afghanistan F; China B-. Amazingly in the discussion on Chin...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 06 18:21:04 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 18:24:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 19:32:48 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 19:35:18 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Apr 09 19:45:20 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 19:47:00 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 29 04:50:17 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 04:53:02 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 26 05:13:14 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 05:14:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 23 06:36:45 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 06:37:12 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 07:35:21 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 07:36:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 12 20:58:12 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 20:59:49 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 22:09:11 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 22:13:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 15:42:24 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 15:48:47 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 20:07:21 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 26 09:46:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 08:06:54 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 15:25:06 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 15:32:37 -0800 2009 Mon Apr 20 08:34:46 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 01 08:46:32 -0800 2009 Tue May 05 17:08:42 -0700 2009 only slight relief is having a true statesman in office, but it may be too late...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jun 15 06:37:34 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 20:03:51 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 14 21:56:52 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 21:56:52 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 12 08:02:10 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 08:02:10 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5375814