‘Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and and Surprising Use of American Power’ (Crown, June 2012) – [7th. June 2012 13:15]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Sanger
David Sanger has now written two books on US foreign policy. His first book is the New York Times best-seller The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (2009), based on his seven years as the Times White House correspondent, covering two wars, the confrontations with Iran, North Korea and other rogue states, and America’s efforts to deal with the rise of China.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Confront-Conceal-Obamas-Surprising-American/dp/0307990478
Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (5 Jun 2012)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0307990478
ISBN-13: 978-0307990471
Sanger’s second book Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and and Surprising Use of American Power (Crown, June 2012) is an account of how Obama has dealt with those challenges, relying on innovative weapons (such as UAVs and cyberwarfare) and reconfigured tools of American power.[4]
Three and a half years ago, David Sanger’s book The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power described how a new American president came to office with the world on fire. Now, just as the 2012 presidential election battle begins, Sanger follows up with an eye-opening, news-packed account of how Obama has dealt with those challenges, relying on innovative weapons and reconfigured tools of American power to try to manage a series of new threats. Sanger describes how Obama’s early idealism about fighting “a war of necessity” in Afghanistan quickly turned to fatigue and frustration, how the early hopes that the Arab Spring would bring about a democratic awakening slipped away, and how an effort to re-establish American power in the Pacific set the stage for a new era of tensions with the world’s great rising power, China.
As the world seeks to understand the contours of the Obama Doctrine, Confront and Conceal is a fascinating, unflinching account of these complex years, in which the president and his administration have found themselves struggling to stay ahead in a world where power is diffuse and America’s ability to exert control grows ever more elusive.