Bush at War
by Bob Woodward

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• State of Denial: Bush At War, Part III
• The Choice: How Bill Clinton Won
• The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House

Book Reviews of Bush at War

Book Review: A Well Written Work of Poltical Science
Summary: 4 Stars

For those that are wondering, this is not a tell-all of what went wrong on 9/11; no are figers pointed here. There is no blame game to be played in Bush At War. Instead, the reader learns about the people involved and the discussions that transpired--good for those interested in political science, boring for those looking for juicy tidbits of what went wrong and when.

Why not five stars then? It's hard to say exactly, suffice it to say that it's a four star book only for two reasons:
1) The Detail gets to you after a while. It's line by line coverage for 300 pages. It's fascinating, but it can be slightly oppressive.
2) If this is possible, the book doesn't have enough of an agenda. There is a somewhat subtle agenda towards the end, but there lacks an answer of so what. Why 3 months? What, besides for an understanding of what happened, am I supposed to take away? What general overarching conclusions should I draw? There are extremely interesting conclusions about President Bush in the Epilogue, and perhaps those embody Woodward's point, but I guess that I'm not sure enough about the answer to these questions to give it a 5 Star rating.

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