Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War

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After serving six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, Robert M. Gates believed that he had left Washington politics in the back of for good—but if he received the decision from the White House in 2006 to lend a hand a nation mired in two wars, he answered what he felt used to be the decision of duty.
 
Forthright and unsparing, Duty is Gates’s in the back of-the-scenes account of his nearly five years as a Secretary of Defense at war: the battles with Congress, the 2 presidents he served, the army itself, and the vast Pentagon bureaucracy; his efforts to lend a hand George W. Bush turn the tide in Iraq; his role as a guiding (and steadily dissenting) voice for Barack Obama; and, most importantly, his ardent devotion to and love for American soldiers. Offering unvarnished appraisals of our political leaders, including Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton, Duty tells a powerful and deeply personal story, giving us an unprecedented take a look at two administrations and the wars that experience defined them.

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