The One Percent Doctrine, Ron Suskind
The One Percent Doctrine, Ron Suskind
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The One Percent Doctrine
Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11

Author: Ron Suskind

Narrator: Edward Herrmann

Abridged: 6 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/20/2006


Synopsis

2007 Audie Award Finalist for the Judges’ Award: Politics

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind takes you deep inside America's real battles with violent, unrelenting terrorists—a game of kill-or-be-killed, from the Oval Office to the streets of Karachi.

Ron Suskind takes readers inside the defining conflict of our era: the war between the West 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 US 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 9/11? How are we actually fighting this war and how can it possibly be won?

Filled with astonishing disclosures, Suskind's book shows readers what he calls "the invisible battlefield"— a global matrix where US spies race to catch soldiers of jihad before they strike. It is a real-life spy thriller with the world's future at stake. It also reveals the shocking and secret philosophy underpinning the war on terror. Gripping and alarming in equal measure, it will reframe the debate about a war that, each day, redefines America and its place in the world.

About Ron Suskind

Ron Suskind is the author of the # 1 New York Times bestseller The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed A Hope in the Unseen. He has been senior national affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. Visit the author's website at www.ronsuskind.com.

About Edward Herrmann

Edward Herrmann's films include Nixon, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Annie, and The Aviator. On television's Gilmore Girls he starred as the patriarch, Richard Gilmore. He has also appeared on The Good Wife, Law & Order, 30 Rock, Grey's Anatomy, and Oz. He earned an Emmy Award for The Practice, and remains well-known for his Emmy-nominated portrayals of FDR in Eleanor and Franklin and Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. On Broadway, he won a Tony Award for his performance in Mrs. Warren's Profession.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonfaith on May 06, 2020

I'll color this one "read' as I plowed through the first 150 pages and then skipped about. The research at the time(2005) was necessary but the delivery is chopped and expressed poorly. Think of Tracy Lord's comments in Philadelphia Story (1940) And all in that horrible, snide, corkscrew English. An......more

Goodreads review by Will on October 20, 2008

Dick Cheney established the core of US policy regarding terrorism. If there is even a one percent possibility of an event happening, we must presume that it is a certainty and act accordingly. Thus has our foreign policy become driven purely by fear and suspicion, a marked separation from a history......more

Goodreads review by Judith on January 21, 2013

I listened to the audio version. I have read enough about the events taking place after 9/11/2001 to have a grasp of the general way Bush handled this attack. This book fills in a lot of gaps and makes me even more horrified than I was before. Bush's character and operational behavior is well-known.......more

Goodreads review by David on September 09, 2007

A terrifying political thriller. In Suskind's new novel, a dim-witted religious convert stumbles into the presidency of the most powerful country in the world. What's truly terrifying, though, is the collection of buffoons he brings with him into office. Soon after taking office, their country suffe......more

Goodreads review by Jack on October 30, 2008

Insightful and definitely worth the time. I often found Susskind's colorful interjections irritating and gratuitous in a book so heavily based on analysis. At one point, for example, someone call "his lead FBI agent in Dubai..., a city whose longing, mercantile soul belongs to no country save that o......more