{"product_id":"9780544002166","title":"Kill Or Capture : The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eKill Or Capture\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Daniel Klaidman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[An] important book.” — Steve Coll, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e “Klaidman . . . [was] clearly given extraordinary access to key players in the administration . . . Provide[s] scintillating details.” — \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow has President Obama waged the war on terror? As lawyer-in-chief, he  promised to close the Guantánamo Bay detention camp and engaged his  inner circle in wrenching debates over the price of liberty and  security. As commander-in-chief, he has become a decisive and lethal  warrior, dealing out drone strikes and death sentences to suspected  terrorists around the world. Daniel Klaidman reveals Obama’s struggle to  balance high-minded idealism and hard-headed politics as it plays out  behind closed doors from the Oval Office and the Justice Department to  the Situation Room and the CIA. Based on hundreds of interviews with men  and women throughout the White House and the national security  establishment, \u003cem\u003eKill or Capture\u003c\/em\u003e is a startling new portrait of our forty-fourth president.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fascinating book . . . Lays bare the human dimension of the  wrenching national security decisions that have to be made.” — Tina  Brown, NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"A good book to read if you want an answer to the question, 'What happened?' That is, what happened to the idealistic Obama of the 2008 campaign who was going to shut down Guantánamo, end indefinite detention, try terrorist suspects in civilian courts, take civil liberties more seriously, and end the rabid secrecy of the Bush era? How did he turn into the guy who not only didn't do any of that stuff, but became a drone-obsessed killing machine in the process?\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eKevin Drum, \u003cem\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Divulge(s) the details of top-level deliberations—details that were almost certainly known only to the administration's inner circle. Likely to be the most thorough accounts of America's recent national-security efforts that we shall receive before the November election.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780544002166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41151183356110,"sku":"9780544002166","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780544002166.jpg?v=1651128818","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780544002166","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}