James Risen

Pay Any Price

Greed, Power, and Endless War

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Produktbeschreibung

"James Risen has established himself as the finest national security reporter of this generation, a field crowded with first rank talent." - Newsweek "An important and powerful book that should be read by anyone who believes it is time to take stock after thirteen years and re-evaluate the nature of the threat the country faces and its response to the atrocity of 9/11." - New York Times Book Review Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere and never promising peace. In Pay Any Price, Pulitzer Prize winner James Risen reveals an extraordinary litany of the hidden costs of that war: billions of dollars that went missing from Iraq only to turn up in a bunker in Lebanon; whistleblowers abused, including a staffer on the House Intelligence Committee persecuted by the F.B.I. for expressing her concerns about the NSA spying on U.S. citizens; and an entire professional organization, the American Psychological Association, forced to investigate its own involvement with the government's use of torture. In the name of fighting terrorism, our government has perpetrated acts that rival the shameful historic wartime abuses of generations past, and it has worked very hard to cover them up. James Risen brings them into the light. "[ Pay Any Price is] a wide-ranging look at consequences of the so-called war on terror and includes stories of shocking thievery during the U.S. occupation of Iraq." - U.S. News & World Report "A no-holds-barred tarring and feathering of the past thirteen years of the U.S. national security system. At times frightening, Risen's book is a strong reminder of the importance of a free press keeping a powerful government in check." - Daily Beast

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mariner Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 134mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780544570351
• ISBN-10: 0544570359
• Artikelnr.: 42024955

Autorenporträt

JAMES RISEN is a senior national security correspondent for The Intercept. Previously, during two decades as a New York Times reporter, Risen won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his stories about the National Security Agency's domestic spying program, and he was a member of the reporting team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for coverage of the September 11 attacks and terrorism. Among his best-selling books are State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration and Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War.

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"Risen's fast-paced, accessible prose and his finely drawn detail make the book read like an implausible thriller. The tragedy is that, however implausible, it all appears to be true . . . enormously impressive. . . . This is an important and powerful book that should be read by anyone who believes it is time to take stock after 13 years and re-evaluate the nature of the threat the country faces and its response to the atrocity of 9/11." - New York Times Book Review

"At long last we can retire Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as the icons of investigative reporting. With his second book probing the dark tunnels of the so-called war on terror, James Risen has established himself as the finest national security reporter of this generation, a field crowded with first rank talent." - Newsweek

"A memorable chronicle of the long-range consequences of the panicky reaction of top American officials to the Sept. 11 attacks...Mr. Risen certainly makes the case in this book that America has lost much in its lashing out against terrorism, and that Congress and the people need to wake up and ask more questions about the political, financial, moral and cultural costs of that campaign." -Tom Ricks, New York Times daily review

"A wide-ranging look at consequences of the so-called war on terror and includes stories of shocking thievery during the U.S. occupation of Iraq." -Steven Nelson, US News & World Report

"A no-holds-barred tarring and feathering of the past 13 years of the U.S. national security system. At times frightening, Risen's book is a strong reminder of the importance of a free press keeping a powerful government in check." -William O'Connor, Daily Beast