Binding: Paperback
Description: ** THE Instant NEW YORK Times Bestseller**" John Brennan is one of the hardest - working most patriotic public servants I've ever seen and our country is better off for it. As president he was one of my closest advisors and a great friend. And in his memoir Undaunted you'll see why. I hope you'll read it." President Barack Obama A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CI a director John Brennan spanning his more than thirty years in government. Friday January 6, 2017: On that day as always John Brennan's alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a. m. But nothing else about that day would be routine. That day marked his first and only security briefing with President - elect Donald Trump. And it was also the day John Brennan said his final farewell to Owen Brennan his father the man who had taught him the lessons of goodness integrity and honor that had shaped the course of an unparalleled career serving his country from within the intelligence community. In this brutally honest memoir Brennan the son of an Irish immigrant who settled in New Jersey describes the life that took him from being a young CI a recruit enamored with the mystique of spy work secretly defiant enough to drive a motorcycle and sport a diamond earring and invigorated by his travels in the Middle East to being the most powerful individual in American intelligence. He details his experiences with very different presidents and what it's been like to bear responsibility for some of the nation's most crucial and polarizing national security decisions. He pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the Agency describing the selfless patriotic and invisible work of the women and men involved in national security. He also examines the insularity arrogance and myopia that have at times undermined its reputation in the eyes of the American people and of members of other branches of government. Through topics ranging from George W. Bush's intervention in Iraq to his thoughts on the CI a's controversial use of enhanced interrogation techniques to his eye - opening account of the planning of the raid that resulted in Bin Laden's death to his realization that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election Brennan brings the reader behind the scenes of some of the most crucial moments in recent U. S. history. He also candidly discusses the times he has failed to live up to his own high standards and the very public fallouts that have resulted. With its behind - the - scenes look at how major U. S. national security policies and actions unfolded during his long and distinguished career especially during his eight years in the Obama administration John Brennan's memoir is a work of history with strong implications for the future of America and our country's relationships with other world powers. Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies at Home and Abroad offers a rare and insightful look at the often - obscured world of national security the intelligence profession and Washington's chaotic political environment. But more than that it is a portrait of a man striving for integrity; for himself for the CI a and for his country.
Title: Undaunted My Fight Against America's Enemies At Home And Abroad
Author(s): Brennan John O.
Publisher: Celadon Books
Barcode: 9781250241764
Pages: 480 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/27/2022
Category: Memoirs