Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism - From Inside the Bush White House

by Bill Sammon

In this bestselling book the author goes behind the scenes with President George W. Bush and his teams as they lead the nation on a new kind of war.

Genres: Politics, Biography

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

Reviews

[Barry Sierer · Rating 1 out of 5]

Deeply dissappointing. The author is basically a worshiper of Goerge W. Bush pretending to act as a journalist. The book gave little real details (though few may have been available at the time) but seemed to focus on why Bush is a great man and why Clinton is not.

[Jerome Otte · Rating 3 out of 5]

A largely forgotten and easily forgettable book.This was OK. Oddly, it came out in 2002 along with "Bush at War." I guess Woodward's book pushed this off the radar. I wouldn't have found out about it all if my library wouldn't have had it. This a thin book, and is mainly a briskly paced one-sided account of the days immediately after 9/11, but there really isn't that much information about the actual war. Appropriately, it begins on September 10, 2001, addressing the political situation that Bush finds himself in. Sammon also includes a detailed account of Bush's 2000 election campaign and writes in fascinating detail how 9/11 just disrupted all that and changed America so quickly. Sammon presents more fully and more accurately Bush's emotional character. The most amusing part is when Sammon describes in detail is the media's negative coverage of the war in Afghanistan. That section is very funny; Sammon obviously has no respect for those self-described, pessimistic "experts".
This isn't a must-read, but check it out at a library if you have nothing else to do...