Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers
-- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in
The New Yorker, including his breakthrough pieces on the
Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he
brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to
answer the critical question of the last three years: how did
America get from the clear morning when hijackers crashed airplanes
into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a divisive and
dirty war in Iraq?
Hersh established himself at the forefront of investigative
journalism thirty-five years ago when he broke the news of the
massacre at My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.
Ever since, he's challenged America's power elite by publishing the
stories that others can't, or won't, tell. In exposés on subjects
ranging from Saudi corruption tonuclear black marketeers and --
months ahead of other journalists -- the White House's false claims
about weapons of mass destruction, Hersh has cemented his
reputation as the indispensable reporter of our time.
In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look
behind the public story of President Bush's "war on terror" and
into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. He reveals
the connections between early missteps in the hunt for Al Qaeda and
disasters on the ground in Iraq. The book includes a new account of
Hersh's pursuit of the Abu Ghraib story and of where, he believes,
responsibility for the scandal ultimately lies. Hersh draws on
sources at the highest levels of the American government and
intelligence community, in foreign capitals, and on the battlefield
for an unparalleled view of a crucial chapter in America's recent
history. With an introduction by The New Yorker's editor,
David Remnick, Chain of Command is a devastating portrait
of an Administration blinded by ideology and of a President whose
decisions have made the world a more dangerous place for
America.
