Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency

by Charlie Savage

Book Overview

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage's penetrating investigation of the Obama presidency and the national security state Barack Obama campaigned on changing George W. Bush's "global war on terror" but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive powers, from warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention to military commissions and targeted killings. Then Obama found himself bequeathing those authorities to Donald Trump. How did the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316286575
• ISBN13: 9780316286572
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 2.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.4" x 9.8"