The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
Author: Ron Suskind
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Price of Loyalty takes readers inside the defining conflict of our era: the war between the U.S. and a growing, shadowy army of terrorists, armed with weapons of alarming power.
Relying on unique access to former and current government officials, this book will reveal for the first time how the U.S. Government - from President Bush on down - is frantically improvising to fight a new kind of war. Where is the enemy? What have been the real victories and defeats since September 11th? How are we actually fighting this war and how can it possibly be won?
Little, in fact, has been revealed about the nature of this struggle and the methods being used. This book will change that. Readers will, for the first time, see harrowing close calls in America where thousands of lives have been saved - and learn how terrorists have artfully adapted to America's early success in capturing al Qaeda operatives.
Suskind will show readers what he calls "the invisible battlefield" - a global matrix where U.S. spies race to catch soldiers of jihad before they strike. It is a real life spy thriller with the world's future at stake.
Suskind's report is filled with astonishing disclosures and will profoundly reframe the debate about a war that, each day, redefines America and its place in the world.
The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani
In fleshing out key relationships among administration members — most notably, between Mr. Cheney and Mr. Bush, Mr. Bush and Mr. Tenet, and Mr. Tenet and Condoleezza Rice, then the national security adviser — it adds some big, revealing chunks to the evolving jigsaw-puzzle portrait of this White House and its modus operandi, while also giving the reader some up close and personal looks at the government's day-to-day operations in the war on terror.
The Washington Post - Barton Gellman
This is an important book, filled with the surest sign of great reporting: the unexpected. It enriches our understanding of even familiar episodes from the Bush administration's war on terror and tells some jaw-dropping stories we haven't heard before.
The New Yorker
In November, 2001, Suskind writes, Vice-President Dick Cheney announced that if there was “a one percent chance” that a threat was real “we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.” He added, “It’s not about our analysis, or finding a preponderance of evidence.” This view of a White House dangerously indifferent to facts is familiar from, among other sources, Suskind’s “The Price of Loyalty,” but he adds much here that is disconcerting, particularly regarding the embrace of torture. (It’s hard to shake the image of Bush asking, literally, for Ayman al-Zawahiri’s head, which the C.I.A. briefly thought it had found in a riverbed in Afghanistan.) Suskind, whose main source seems to be the former C.I.A. director George Tenet (to whom he is very kind), has made news with revelations about Western Union’s coöperation with the C.I.A. and about a plan to release cyanide gas in subways, although it’s not clear that this threat was more real than other phantoms the White House chased.
Publishers Weekly
Herrmann is ideal for this reading. He has the voice and style of a trusted news anchor, but is also a masterly interpreter of Suskind's ironic and painful narration of how the Dick Cheney/Donald Rumsfeld friendship and power grab got us into the fix we're in today. "Even if there's only a one percent chance of the unimaginable becoming true, act as though it's a certainty," Cheney told CIA and NSA officials in Nov. 2001. "It's not about our analysis, or finding a preponderance of evidence. It's about our response." This separation of fact-based analysis and action, Cheney's 1% doctrine, became the basis of decision making in both foreign and domestic affairs, with the Patriot Act as its legal underpinning. Rumsfeld hired his prot g Cheney during the Bush Sr. administration, and both believed that Bush "missed history's call" by leaving Saddam Hussein in power. Since Bush Jr. had no foreign affairs experience, it wasn't difficult to start pushing him into Iraq even before 9/11 offered such "rationale" as WMDs and an al-Queda connection. "Such alignments," says Suskind, "often turn the wheel of history." Suskind believes George Tenet was so grateful that Bush didn't fire him after 9/11 that, though the CIA knew better, he loyally permitted the endless fabrication of "facts" to become the backbone of public policy statements. Simultaneous release with the Simon & Schuster hardcover. (July) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
How America is fighting the terrorists and how the terrorists adapt and fight back. An embargoed book from the author of The Price of Loyalty; with an eight-city tour. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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Jackie Ethel and Joan: Women of Camelot
Author: J Randy Taraborrelli
If ever three women would be changed, and challenged, by their marriages, they would be Jacqueline Bouvier, Ethel Skakel, and Joan Bennett. None of them, as radiant brides, could have been prepared for the fame, tragedies, and difficult lives awaiting them. As they struggled to cope with their husbands' infidelities and scandals, the assassinations of Jack and Bobby Kennedy, and the harsh glare of constant media attention, they would become like sisters, reaching out to one another with comfort and consolation. But, like sisters, they would also compete with one another, argue, and become estranged, sometimes for years. Now, from J. Randy Taraborrelli, comes a biography that for the first time captures the special sisterhood of three extraordinary women.
Library Journal
The Kennedys once again are the focus of a biography, but this time the stories bring together three women who married into the famous family: Jackie Bouvier, Ethel Skakel, and Joan Bennett. Although their childhoods are briefly visited, it is the years of Camelot that are the main focus here, with much attention to its poignant collapse upon the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy. Filled with anecdotes derived from an exhaustive list of sources, including interviews and personal letters, there are enough tantalizing interpersonal scenes to keep even the most experienced Kennedy watcher alert. Taraborrelli keeps true to his focus by emphasizing the wives' reactions, feelings, and accomplishments rather than shifting to the Kennedy family members themselves. Although the narrative borders on the melodramatic at times, the comfortable pace, coupled with a rich reading by Beth Fowler, makes this a necessary purchase for any public library collection.--Susan McCaffrey, Haslett H.S., MI Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
New York Post - Liz Smith
This book is the first to really examine the relationshipd between the three Kennedy wives, all so different, yet all with one tragic, common bond.
Table of Contents:
| Prologue: Long Live the Queen | 19 | |
| Part 1 | ||
| Joan ... | 27 | |
| Jackie ... | 32 | |
| Ethel ... | 35 | |
| ... and the Secret Service | 40 | |
| Jack Defeats Nixon | 44 | |
| The Pre-Inaugural Gala | 54 | |
| Jack | 60 | |
| The Five Inaugural Balls | 63 | |
| Bobby | 70 | |
| The Skakels | 76 | |
| Not One to Feel Sorry for Herself | 89 | |
| White House Infidelities | 91 | |
| The Bouviers | 98 | |
| Jackie's First Meeting with Ethel | 108 | |
| Jack Proposes Marriage | 114 | |
| All of This, and More | 123 | |
| Joseph and Jackie's Deal | 133 | |
| Sisterly Advice | 138 | |
| The Bennetts | 145 | |
| Part 2 | ||
| A Legacy of Infidelity | 163 | |
| Jack's Affair with Marilyn | 168 | |
| Jackie's Expensive Diversion | 172 | |
| Madcap Ethel during the Kennedy Presidency | 179 | |
| Joan's Social Impasse | 184 | |
| Trying to Understand Each Other | 187 | |
| Jackie's Documentary: A Tour of the White House | 193 | |
| The Voice | 197 | |
| "Secrets Always Come Out" | 203 | |
| Part 3 | ||
| Bobby Meets Marilyn | 213 | |
| "Life's Too Short to Worry about Marilyn Monroe" | 216 | |
| Jackie's Ultimatum to Jack | 224 | |
| Bobby's Rumored Affair with Marilyn | 226 | |
| Joseph's Stroke | 229 | |
| At Horizon House | 234 | |
| The Walking Cane | 238 | |
| Life at the Hyannis Port Compound | 240 | |
| The Fourth of July in Hyannis Port, 1962 | 245 | |
| Joan's Many Faux Pas | 248 | |
| Pat Finds Jackie "So Insecure" | 257 | |
| Marilyn Monroe's Death | 260 | |
| Jackie Goes Away to Think | 265 | |
| Part 4 | ||
| The Kennedy Women Do Men's Work | 273 | |
| Jackie's Wicked Scheme | 290 | |
| The Cuban Missile Crisis | 293 | |
| Joan--The Senator's Wife | 304 | |
| Part 5 | ||
| Delighted to Be Pregnant | 313 | |
| The Deaths of Infants Arabella and Patrick | 315 | |
| Lee Radziwill Invites Jackie-in-Mourning | 328 | |
| "Not Ethel's Best Moment" | 332 | |
| Aboard the Christina | 335 | |
| Jack Summons Jackie--To No Avail | 341 | |
| "Ari Is Not for You" | 345 | |
| Part 6 | ||
| Jack's Rapprochement with Jackie: "Getting to Know You" | 351 | |
| Tragedy | 356 | |
| "The President's Been Shot" | 362 | |
| Holy Mary, Mother of God | 366 | |
| "The Party's Been Canceled--The President's Dead" | 370 | |
| In Mourning | 379 | |
| Tea with Lady Bird | 385 | |
| Thanksgiving, 1963 | 391 | |
| Jackie's Camelot | 398 | |
| "Let It All Out" | 403 | |
| Aftermath | 408 | |
| Part 7 | ||
| Moving Out of the White House | 447 | |
| Lyndon Johnson "Using Jackie" | 453 | |
| The Kennedy Camp on LBJ: "A Blight on the New Frontier" | 461 | |
| Joan's Bottled-Up Anxiety | 468 | |
| Jackie's Saddest Days | 472 | |
| Jackie and Brando--The Rumors | 480 | |
| Part 8 | ||
| Ted's Plane Crash | 485 | |
| Joan Wins the Election for Ted | 495 | |
| Jackie on the Anniversary of November 22, 1963 | 503 | |
| Using Jackie--Yet Again | 506 | |
| Joan the Emissary | 510 | |
| Cead Mile Failte | 514 | |
| Joan's Continuing Struggle | 519 | |
| Part 9 | ||
| The Rumor Mill | 527 | |
| RFK for President | 537 | |
| Enter "The Greek" | 542 | |
| The Appeal to Jackie | 548 | |
| Ethel's Thoughtless Remark | 555 | |
| Another Tragedy | 563 | |
| "The Hand of a Dead Man" | 571 | |
| "No God of Mine" | 576 | |
| Senator Robert Francis Kennedy Is Dead | 580 | |
| Bobby's Funeral | 587 | |
| "We Shall Carry on with Courage" | 593 | |
| Ethel--Just a Shell | 600 | |
| Part 10 | ||
| Ted Negotiates Jackie's Nuptials | 613 | |
| Andy Williams | 620 | |
| Ethel Pushes Jackie Too Far | 629 | |
| "Bobby's Little Miracle" | 633 | |
| Part 11 | ||
| Chappaquiddick | 639 | |
| Jackie Tells Ari: "I Have to Be There" | 644 | |
| Joan Accuses: "All You Care about Is How It Looks?" | 652 | |
| Ethel to the Rescue | 658 | |
| Mary Jo's Funeral | 661 | |
| Ted Asks for Forgiveness | 667 | |
| Joan Loses the Baby | 673 | |
| A Final Gathering for Joseph | 677 | |
| The End of Camelot | 681 | |
| Part 12 | ||
| Ted Hurts Joan Again | 693 | |
| Ethel's Troubled Brood | 700 | |
| Will Ted Run? The Joan Factor | 705 | |
| Joan and Ted: Creating the Illusion of a Marriage | 715 | |
| Joan in Control of Joan | 724 | |
| The Announcement: EMK for President | 728 | |
| Joan's White House Fantasies | 733 | |
| EMK's Candidacy: Not Meant to Be | 736 | |
| The Last Straw for Joan | 744 | |
| Postscript: Jackie, Ethel, and Joan after Camelot | 748 | |
| Acknowledgments and Source Notes | 767 |
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