| Portion of title |
Memoirs of a Secretary at war |
| Contents |
Summoned to duty -- Iraq, Iraq and Iraq -- Mending fences, finding allies -- Waging war on the Pentagon -- Beyond Iraq: a complicated world -- Good war, bad war -- One damn thing after another -- Transition -- New term, new agenda, old secretary -- Afghanistan: a house divided -- Difficult foes, difficult friends -- Meanwhile, back in Washington -- War, war...and revolution -- At war to the last day -- Reflections. |
| Abstract |
The former Secretary of Defense offers a candid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The author received a call from the White House, he thought he had long left Washington politics behind. After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 2013026348 |
| ISBN | 9780307959478 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0307959473 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0307959481 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9780307959485 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 0804148643 (compact disk) |
| ISBN | 9780804148641 (compact disk) |
| ISBN | 0804148651 (audiobook download) |
| ISBN | 9780804148658 (audiobook download) |
