Mann, Jim

Summary: An analysis of the events, ideas, and conflicts that have defined the Obama administration's foreign policy explores the struggles to enact coherent and effective policies at a time of global turmoil.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 MAN

Hersh, Seymour M

Summary: In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama’s first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HER

Chandrasekaran, Rajiv.

Summary: In this book, the author focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of Obama's surge. This is the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama's watch., and reveals the epic tugof war that occurred between the President and a military that, once on the ground, increasingly went its own way.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 CHA

Wallace, Chris

Summary: Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 WAL