The War in Quotes

Informationen zum Autor G. B. Trudeau has been drawing his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip for more than forty years. In addition to cartooning, Trudeau has worked in theater, film, and television. He also has been a contributing columnist for the  New York Times op-ed page and later an essayist for Time magazine. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jane Pauley. They have three grown children.   Klappentext "The War in Quotes" is a startling account of the War in Iraq! told entirely in the words of those who conceived! planned! advocated! and executed it. Zusammenfassung Doonesbury.com has been collecting quotations for the past several years from world leaders and political players in their "Say What?" feature, and this book will be a look at the recent history of the U.S.'s war in the Middle East through quotations culled from their archive. "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."-Dick Cheney June 2005 "All right. You've covered your ass now." -George W. Bush to the CIA briefer who on Aug. 6, 2001, warned him about an imminent Bin Laden strike

Product details

• Authors: G. B./ Stanford Trudeau
• Assisted by: David Stanford (Editor)
• Publisher: Andrews Mcmeel Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2008
• EAN: 9780740772313
• ISBN: 978-0-7407-7231-3
• No. of pages: 110
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 178 mm x 6 mm
• Assisted by: G. B. Trudeau
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Afghanistan, Kuwait, HISTORY / Military / General, REFERENCE / Quotations, Iraq, Modern warfare, c 1990 to c 1999, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Afghan War, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Dictionaries Of Quotations, Gulf War, Quotations, proverbs and sayings, Iraq War, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General