History of Bush's War Cabinet

Author: By (US) Mann, translated by Han Hong and others
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The central figures of this book are a group who call themselves the "Phoenix Group," including Powell, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Cheney, and Amitych. They have been or currently are prominent figures, even pillars, in the Bush administration. By tracing the experiences and intellectual journeys of these individuals, the book attempts to reveal the origins of the Bush administration's foreign policy—how major foreign policy decisions, such as the Iraq War, were made after the "9/11" attacks. The book tells us that the causes and consequences of these major decisions can even be traced back thirty years. What experiences of the "Phoenix Group" influenced the Bush administration's foreign policy? How did their thoughts form? What instincts, attitudes, and experiences were concealed by the decisions of the "Phoenix Group" and the choices made after "9/11"? The answers to these questions can be found in the experiences and thoughts of the "Phoenix Group" over the past thirty years. Based on interviews with numerous key figures, the author reveals many previously unknown details of the decision-making process. The language is witty and vivid, the research is thorough, and the analysis is sharp, making it an outstanding work of political biography as well as a highly academically valuable masterpiece.