01959nam a2200217Ia 4500 TDMU_31947 210410s9999 xx 000 0 und d 390.0959729 GR102 Graham, Bradley By his own rules the ambitions, successes, and ultimate failures of Donald Rumsfeld Bradley Graham New York PublicAffairs 2009 viii, 803 p. Includes bibliographical references and index; Neal A. Newfield, Ph.D., LICSW (Giver) 2017; Once considered among the best and brightest of his generation, Donald Rumsfeld was exceptionally prepared by successful careers in politics and business to assume the Pentagon's top job in 2001. Yet six years later, he left office as the most controversial Defense Secretary since Robert McNamara, widely criticized for his management of the Iraq war and for his difficult relationships with Congress, administration colleagues, and military officers. Was he really the arrogant, errant, over-controlling Pentagon leader frequently portrayed--or as his supporters contend, a brilliant, hard-charging visionary caught in a whirl of polarized Washington politics, dysfunctional federal bureaucracy, and bad luck? Bradley Graham, a longtime Washington Post reporter who closely covered Rumsfeld's challenging tenure at the Pentagon, offers an insightful biography of a complex personality -- From publisher description Rumsfeld, Donald, 1932-; United States Politics and government 2001-2009; Cabinet officers United States Biography; Iraq War, 2003-2011; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Nhân viên nội các Hoa Kỳ Tiểu sử; Chiến tranh Iraq 2003-2011; Chiến tranh chống khủng bố, 2001-2009 http://lrc.tdmu.edu.vn/opac/search/detail.asp?aID=2&ID=31947 Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Thủ Dầu Một