A fourth installment in a series that includes State of Denial and Plan of Attack outlines the Bush administration's intricate decision-making process that is influencing the war in Iraq and defining the president's final years in office. Simultaneous. Bob Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post , where he has worked for thirty-seven years. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, first for the Post' s coverage of the Watergate scandal, and later for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has authored or coauthored twelve #1 national nonfiction bestsellers. He is the author of Obama's Wars , The War Within, Bush at War, Plan of Attack , and State of Denial , among others. In his fourth, and most disturbing, analysis of the Bush presidency, Bob Woodward looks at the years 2006 to 2008, during which the nation's chief executive hunkers down with a failing strategy in Iraq. This time around things get positively King Lear-ish as a fawning national security advisor and a yes-woman secretary of state enable an unblinking, righteously guided president, who, by his own admission, is uninterested in diplomacy and obsessed with enemy body counts. Narrator Boyd Gaines, who has read the past three Woodward books, captures the essence of each of the players' voices without using mimicry���right down to Bush's mispronunciation of "nuclear." The result is one of those exceptional author-reader combinations that makes you wish the series wouldn't end. On the other hand . . . R.W.S. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine Used Book in Good Condition