The One Percent Doctrine, Ron Suskind’s anatomy of the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” reads more like a thriller than the serious journalism it is. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, Suskind has a firm grasp on the dramatic aspects of his subject, and his book-a largely chronological narrative of the actions of the Department of Defense and (...)
September 08, 2006
Books
As Bad as You Thought
The One Percent DoctrineDeep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11Ron SuskindSimon & Schuster, $27, 367 pp.
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