Known and unknown
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Donald Rumsfeld
Publisher: Sentinel
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 813
ISBN-13: 9781595230843
Subjects: Biography; Officials and employees; Cabinet officers; Politics and government; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Employees; United States. Department of Defense; United States
Description: With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with previously undisclosed details and insights about the Bush administration, 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It also features Rumsfeld's unique and often surprising observations on eight decades of history.
Notes: With new preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 739-790) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lessons in terror; title: An American, Chicago born; title: The U.S. Congress: from Camelot to Quagmire; title: In Nixon's arena; title: Javelin catcher: inside the Ford White House; title: Fighting the Cold War; title: Back to reality; title: Leaning forward; title: Into the graveyard of empires; title: Saddam's miscalculation; title: The occupation of Iraq; title: Wartime detention; title: Pulling on our boots: challenges and controversies beyond the war zones; title: The long, hard slog.