{"product_id":"9780525561064","title":"To Start a War : How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Essential . . . one for the ages . . . a must read for all who  care about presidential power.\" -The Washington Post \"Authoritative . . . The most  comprehensive account yet of  that smoldering wreck of foreign  policy, one that haunts us today.\"   -LA Times One of BookPage's Best Books of 2020 To Start a War paints a vivid and indelible picture of a decision-making process  that was fatally compromised by a combination of post-9\/11 fear and paranoia, rank naivete, craven groupthink, and a set of actors with idees fixes  who gamed the process relentlessly. Everything was believed; nothing was  true. Robert Draper's fair-mindedness and deep understanding of the principal  actors suffuse his account, as does a storytelling genius that is close to  sorcery. There are no cheap shots here, which makes the ultimate conclusion  all the more damning. In the spirit of Barbara W. Tuchman's The Guns of August and Marc Bloch's Strange Defeat, To Start A War will stand as the definitive account of a collective  scurrying for evidence that would prove to be not just dubious but entirely  false-evidence that was then used to justify a verdict that led to hundreds of  thousands of deaths and a flood tide of chaos in the Middle East that shows  no signs of ebbing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52930000748853,"sku":"EB_HI0700_I15-06_DUBAI","price":86.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0971\/7773\/1381\/files\/9780525561064-1.jpg?v=1789401293","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.ae\/ja\/products\/9780525561064","provider":"Books Kinokuniya UAE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}