Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage is a Washington Correspondent for The New York Times. His first book, Takeover, a bestselling and award-winning account of the Bush administration's efforts to expand presidential power, was named one of the best books of 2007 by The Washington Post, Slate, and Esquire.
A New York Times Editors' Choice Named one of the best books of
2015 by ABC News and The Guardian "Offers a master class in how to
think seriously about crucial aspects of the [war on terrorism].
... comprehensive, authoritative ... anyone truly interested in
foreign policy or national security should find it essential and
enthralling, thanks to the author's intelligence, objectivity,
legwork and literary skill. ... Savage's superb book should stand
as an indispensable guide to the debate."--Gideon Rose, New York
Times Book Review
"The value that Savage brings to his book is in reporting out how
Obama's lawyers, who were often the toughest critics of Bush when
they were out of power, wrestled with and ultimately sanctioned
this retrenchment."--Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Power Wars "offers a unique and thorough history of the American
surveillance policy post-9/11, the inner machinations of the
executive branch at the highest levels, the legal battles, the
battling personalities, and the strange evolution from Bush to
Obama in this critical area of law and policy ... As one who has
studied and written about the Snowden phenomenon, I can't imagine a
better, more total and fair inside history of that dramatic
event."--Ronald Goldfarb, Washington Lawyer
Power Wars "will almost certainly stand as the most comprehensive
account of the Obama administration's policies, views, theories and
bureaucratic battles over national security laws and the legacy of
the 2001 attacks. His account is thoughtful and consistently
fair-minded... no small achievement."--James Mann, New York
Times
Power Wars covers "in intricate detail nearly every major issue in
Obama's national security policy: detainees, military commissions,
torture, surveillance, secrecy, targeted killings, and war powers.
Its behind-the-scenes story will likely stand as the definitive
record of Obama's approach to law and national security. ... His
main interest is presidential power in its perennial struggle with
Congress and the courts. Ultimately, the stakes are high: whether
we will continue to have, in John Adams's words, 'government of
laws, and not of men.'"--David Luban, The New York Review of
Books
"A rich blow-by-blow account of how and why the Obama
administration determined the legality of its war-on-terrorism
policies."--Jack Goldsmith, The New Rambler
"Already classic.... Savage's 700 page book, with access to a
staggering 150 current and former top officials, including
executive branch lawyers normally terrified of the press, paints a
picture like no other."--Yonah Jeremy Bob, The Jerusalem Post
"Both the most comprehensive and the most engrossing look at how
Obama morphed from a candidate beloved by the civil liberties
community into what many saw as a continuation of George W.
Bush...could not be more timely."--Trevor Timm, The Guardian
"Delves deeply into the nooks and crannies of every significant
national security debate touching on the intersection of national
security and law. The product of prodigious research and interviews
with seemingly every player, Savage's book provides a revealing
picture of the inner workings of the Obama presidency."--Gabriel
Schoenfeld, The Weekly Standard
"Deserve[s] to be widely read, by the public at large and by those
who will staff the next administration...Will stand among the
definitive accounts of the United States' approach to national
security and law over the past decade and a half."--Dawn Johnsen,
Foreign Affairs
"Extraordinarily comprehensive."--Marty Lederman, Just Security
"It is hard to imagine many journalists capable of writing a book
on this topic on the scale, and with the ambition, of this
one."--Robert Bauer, Time
"Over the years, Savage has become one of the most knowledgeable
and tireless reporters chronicling the civil liberties and war
powers controversies under the Obama administration. ... Savage has
written a book that will clearly be the comprehensive historical
account of these controversies."--Glenn Greenwald, The
Intercept
"The book has much broader appeal than to those in the national
security law bubble... [Deeply sourced] is an understatement, as
Savage reveals the contents of never-before released documents,
memos, and internal deliberations across a variety of
topics."--Cully Stimson, Lawfare
"The most comprehensive account to date of the Obama
administration's approach to national security law and
policy-making."--Matthew C. Waxman, Time
"The most essential explanation of modern-day American national
security policy.... Anyone who has followed current events on drone
strikes, surveillance, and encryption, and other essential issues
at the forefront of modern America--and wants the entire inside
baseball play-by-play to go with it--will love this book."--Cyrus
Farivar, Ars Technica
There is "no more comprehensive guide to today's debates over
national security and civil liberties."--Dina Temple-Raston, The
Washington Post
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