Books like Bush at war by Bob Woodward

A frontline chronicle of the United States’ wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, told through the eyes of New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins.

Seymour M. Hersh exposes how the Bush administration’s decisions turned the September 11 attacks into a divisive Iraq war, revealing the links between early intelligence failures, political ideology, and the Abu Ghraib scandal.

Former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates gives a candid, personal account of his time serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

James Carroll’s *Crusade* is a collection of critical columns that confront the Bush administration’s war on terror, Iraq policy, and faith‑based foreign agenda, offering moral and historical scrutiny of U.S. military imperialism.

Michael Parenti examines the causes of 9/11, critiquing U.S. policy, globalization, and religious radicalism, and explores who benefits and who suffers from the post‑Attack era.

Bob Woodward interviewed dozens of high-ranking government officials to compile this record of the discussions and thought processes behind President Obama's decision to increase the American presence in Afghanistan by 30,000 military in early 2010 and begin phase-out of American involvement in mid-2011. The author used his access well in documenting secret discussions and public pronouncements. This glimpse behind the curtain of a Commander in Chief at war allows us to understand some of the many inputs a president is expected to process before making a decision. It is an interesting study of personalities and interests at high levels of governmental service. Spicing up the account are the career-busting comments of General Stanley McChrystal and how they led to the appointment of General David Petraeus to command in Afghanistan. This is the book, of course, where President Obama mentioned that America could absorb several attacks by terrorists and come out stronger for it.

A detailed account of President George W. Bush’s decision to launch the 2003 Iraq invasion, drawn from interviews with 75 key officials and extensive conversations with the president himself.