Kurt Eichenwald

500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars Kurt Eichenwald

Marc Notes: A TOUCHSTONE BOOK.; Includes bibliographical references (pages 526-576) and index. Review Quotes: "An epic narrative.... It may be his best book yet."Review Quotes: "Gripping . . . both a page-turning read and an insightful dissection of 9/11's dark legacy"Review Quotes: "Eichenwald is a master at making complicated stories easily understood....["500 Days" is] a page-turner because of his journalistic attention to detail. Readers get fly-on-the-wall accounts as Bush administration officials weigh life-and-death decisions."Review Quotes: "Thorough reporting and crisp writing . . . Moves at the pace of a movie-ready thriller."Review Quotes: "Illuminating and entertaining throughout."Review Quotes: "An ambitious undertaking and a valuable resource. . . . [Eichenwald] brings home the fundamental rashness and recklessness of the American response to the Sept. 11 attack."Review Quotes: "Who really made the decision to go to war in Iraq, and how grounded in fact were the "facts" fed to the American public? The author gives us not a seat at the table but an awfully good listening post to the decisions that changed the world."Review Quotes: "With the pacing of a suspense novel, award-winning journalist Eichenwald's richly researched account ... [is] a breathtaking inspection of the war on terror that began on 9/11 and reverberates to this day."Review Quotes: "A blow-by-blow, episodic reconstruction of the fallout from 9/11 in the highest spheres of terrorist strategy ... demonstrating literally how the anti-terrorist hysteria in the United States, and the hatred of America and general global paranoia, forged the 'trauma that haunts the world to this day.'" Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 07/28/2013 pg. 24 (EAN 9781451669398, Paperback) New York Review of Books 05/08/2014 pg. 54 (EAN 9781451669398, Paperback) Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2012 (EAN 9781451669381, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 07/02/2012 pg. 58 (EAN 9781451669381, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 07/01/2012 pg. 11 (EAN 9781451669381, Hardcover) - *Starred Review New York Times Book Review 10/07/2012 pg. 24 (EAN 9781451669381, Hardcover) New Yorker (The) 10/14/2012 pg. 22 (EAN 9781451669381, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Eichenwald, Kurt Kurt Eichenwald wrote for "The New York Times" for more than twenty years. A two-time winner of the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and 2002. He is the author of three bestselling books, one of which, "The Informant", was made into a major motion picture. He lives in Dallas with his wife and three children. Visit him online at KurtEichenwald.com.