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Sammon's on-the-scene reporting and exclusive interviews with the president and his top advisers reveal how the White House is implementing the most profound shift in U.S. foreign policy in more than half a century, prompting an eminent Democratic historian to rank Bush alongside John Quincy Adams and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as one of America's \"grand\" strategists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor the first time, Sammon discloses the president's vow that Kerry will \"regret\" bad-mouthing the liberation of Iraq, the seminal event in the post-9\/11 phase of the Bush presidency. 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This momentous time mixed triumph and disaster-from the triumph of the successful tracking and killing of Al Qaeda's terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the spectacularly successful Iraqi elections, to the disaster of the subsequent unraveling in Iraq and American voters' repudiation of Bush in the congressional elections of 2006. But through it all, Sammon shows that President Bush took the high road, fighting to spread moral democracy around the world while the low-minded press focused on Vice President Cheney's accidental shooting of a friend while hunting and Virginia senator George Allen's use of the word macaca on the campaign trail. 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In Washington Times correspondent Sammon's inside account of the Bush administration's reaction to 9-11 and the resultant war on terror, readers are tendered a breathless, highly complimentary portrait of the president and an overly simplistic moral tale about the great merit and unwavering moral vision of his inner circle. What could be an extremely interesting if one-sided account is often undercut by Sammon's penchant for editorializing (Bush was more directly affected than most Americans by the attacks themselves; Osama bin Laden giggled when speaking about the attacks; and the president often twinkles when he speaks) and novelizing (Bush never thought he would be so relieved to see the White House again. He scanned the magnificent curve of the South Portico.He gazed at the Rose Garden). Nor does Sammon seem to appreciate the irony of quoting some of the president's less eloquent statements, such as: The role of a president is to seek great objectives for the country, big goals. Sammon, author of the bestselling At Any Cost, largely writes for the converted, so the intended audience for this volume will no doubt love it. 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