Topic: Ron Suskind

'Confidence Men,' by Ron Suskind: review

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Ezra Klein's appearance in The New York Review of Books reviewing Ron Suskind's Confidence Men drops the average age of NYRB contributors by a good...
As a lifelong admirer of American culture and institutions, I find it painful to follow the 2012 political cycle. What malign convergence of forces...

Books: Obama, a campaigner, learning to lead

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job-training," Vice-President Joe Biden famously quipped of his future running mate in 2007.That's exactly what President Barack Obama did in his first two years of office, according to ...

BOOKS: Obama, a campaigner, learning to lead

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job-training," Vice-President Joe Biden famously quipped of his future running mate in 2007.That's exactly what President Barack Obama did in his first two years of office, according to ...

Geithner rejects charges in new book

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday slammed the "sad little stories" of a new book that has exposed the White House's economic team to embarrassing scrutiny at a key political moment.Excerpts from "Confidence Men," by Ron Suskind, billed as ...
The headlines generated by a new book about Barack Obama paint an unsettling portrait. The President of the United States is said to be indecisive...

Zings of the Day September 16, 2011

Posted on 09/16/11 at 3:38pm by Jonathan Chen . Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM ) plunged today after the company missed estimates. Must be that...

White house forgery scandal

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind writes in his new book, The Way of the World, that President George W. Bush ordered the CIA to create a...

The Way of the World

The Way of the World , written by Ron Suskind and published on August 5 , 2008 , alleges that the White House forged intelligence reports in order to support the cause of war in Iraq . Suskind further alleges that the Bush Administration made Saddam ...