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Title Statement | Debriefing the president: the interrogation of Saddam Hussein / John Nixon. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Interrogation of Saddam Hussein |
Author | Nixon, John |
Publication | New York: Blue Rider Press,[2016]©2016 |
Extent of Item | 242 pages ; |
ISBN | 0399575812 9780399575815 |
Other Number | 2989682 |
Contents | Prologue: unfinished business -- Holy shit, it's Saddam! -- Dare to be right -- Destination Baghdad -- Winging it -- Getting under Saddam's fingernails -- The Persian menace -- Turbans in politics -- Death to Shiites and Zionists -- Saddam blows his top -- Deep dive in the Oval Office -- Crosswise with the president -- In the shadow of his father -- The first draft of history -- Leaving with regrets -- Epilogue: a hanging in the middle of the night. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | The first man to conduct a prolonged interrogation of Saddam Hussein after his capture explains why preconceived ideas about the dictator led Washington policymakers and the Bush White House astray. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Name | Hussein, Saddam,1937-2006--Imprisonment |
Hussein, Saddam,1937-2006--Last years | |
Nixon, John | |
By Location | Iraq--Politics and government--2003- |