Book description
During his seven years covering the White House for the New York
Times, Chief Washington Correspondent David E. Sanger has had
extraordinary and unrivaled access to presidents, world leaders and
secretaries of state. Here, in The Inheritance, he gathers
together all the evidence he has uncovered, both on and off the
record, to offer us an insider's look at the many complex and
oftentimes terrifying challenges that Obama now faces. Uncovering in
fascinating detail the inner workings of the US military and
intelligence communities, and describing the huge cost of the decision
to invest so much of America, and Britain's, future on what once
seemed like an easy mission in Iraq, Sanger talk us through a war gone
bad in Afganistan, a power-hungry Iran on the brink of nuclear
weapons, an unstable alliance with Pakistan, a rising China and a the
worldwide economic crisis.
Mapping the political landscape that Obama has inherited, this book
examines the international arenas that will remain the focus of the
entire western world throughout the years to come, and gives us a
fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the Situation Room of the
presidency. If you want to understand the world today in all its
complexity, there's only one book for you: The Inheritance by
David E. Sanger.
David E. Sanger has twice been a member of
New York Times
reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize. He has also been awarded,
twice, the Merriman Smith Award for his coverage of national security,
the Weintal prize for diplomatic reporting, a DuPont Award for the
documentary, "Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?"
Twice weekly he delivers the "Washington Report" for WQXR-FM
programs.
