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Known and Unknown

by Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld
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Few Americans have spent more time near the center of power than Donald Rumsfeld, whose widely commented-on memoir offers many previously undisclosed details about his service with four U.S. presidents. We follow his rise from a middle-class childhood to the Navy to a seat in the U.S. Congress at age thirty, and his experiences there during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights era. We also get his unique perspective as a cabinet-level member of the Nixon and Ford administrations, as CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, and as a special envoy to the Middle East for President Reagan.
 
Rumsfeld also addresses the challenges and controversies of his time as Secretary of Defense during the 9/11 attacks by al-Qaida and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He includes candid observations on the differences of views within the Pentagon and with other members of President George W. Bush’s National Security Council.
 
In a famous press briefing, Rumsfeld once said that “There are also unknown unknowns . . . things we do not know we don’t know.” His book makes us realize just how much we didn’t know.

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  • Release date

    February 8, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781101978191
      • File size: 398813 KB
      • Duration: 13:50:51

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's highly personal memoir is filled with previously undisclosed and recently declassified details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Rumsfeld does a great job of narrating his unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history: his experiences growing up during the Depression and WWII, his service in Congress, his cabinet-level positions in the Nixon and Ford White Houses, his assignments in the Reagan administration, and his years as a successful business executive in the private sector. Rumsfeld is not self-serving as he blends narrative detail with personal judgment and reflection in his self-assured tone. He makes us realize just how much we didn't know. B.C.E. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine

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