The World According to Rummy

by John Weber

Captures one aspect of Rumsfeld's thought, he eludes us in it; because his great talent is prose: he is a master of false precision. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156649950X
• ISBN13: 9781566499507
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Rumsfeld caught by his own words

This book of Rumsfeld interviews, quotes from Rummy's Rules, and releases from the DoD website is full of terrific quotes from the secretary on WMD, al-Qaeda, "elegant intelligence," the perils of catastrophic success, known knowns, unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns--in other words, Rumsfeld caught in the act of gross mistatement and misleading cynicism. The reader will learn as much here about the whys of the war, prison abuses, etc. here as in any of the big books this year.

Is he crazy, or what?

Of the entire Bush team, Donald Rumsfeld may be the most vexing. A veteran pol, clearly intelligent, far more experienced than anyone else in the administration, he nonetheless makes more preposterous -- and often terrifying -- statements than Cheney, Ashcroft, Wolfowitz, or even Bush himself. Using Rummy's own statements, all set in context, this little primer let's you decide for yourself whether the Secretary of Defense is clever, power crazy, self-destructive, "sexy" (as some have claimed), a savior of the Free World, or just plain nuts. It's one of the best briefings on current politics that I have read.