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Summary: A Disgrace
Review: A lie from start to finish. Sammon owes an apology to the thousands of innocents murdered on 9/11/01 with this fawning mismash.
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Summary: The unveiling of a self-serving media
Review: This book revealed the charisma and charm of President Bush. He has a way of making ordinary people feel at ease in his presence and at the same time winning their hearts. What I found highly disturbing was the self-serving media. I was appalled to learn that the press deliberately distorted the truth and when confronted with theirs lies refused to correct their coverage.
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Summary: Fighting Back
Review: Exceptional and powerful from cover to cover. I'm purchasing copies for everyone I know.
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Summary: The best book about the war on terror
Review: I could not put Sammon's book down. It is a riveting minute by minute acount of the events sorrounding 9-11. He is able to humanize the people involved in a way that you feel like you are watching a well done movie on the subject. He also presents the press (of which he is a member) in a realistic, behind the scenes light. The light often shows them to posses far less character than the president has displayed throughout the crisis. Great book!
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Summary: Bush's redemption
Review: This book gives back to Bush what the media and top Democrats took away: his compassionate side. Bush is portrayed. and rightly so, as a compassionate, caring, yet tough and persistant leader. This book also exposes the media as liberal, impulsive and downright wrong in a lot of cases. It also shows the weakness of Democrats that are brought down to insulting Bush's war as a bully fight and claiming that Bush didn't do all that he could to save America from 9/11. Very insightful and moving book.
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Summary: More than just the story of 9-11
Review: While it is true "Fighting Back" is an introspective look behind the scenes of George W. Bush's presidency during some of the darkest days of his administration, it also gives great insight into the way Democratic strategists have tried to undermine every breath he takes. Bush has been "Fighting Back" ever since Al Gore called him back on the cell phone election night and started trying to create votes that weren't there in his unsuccessful bid to steal the election from Bush.
You should be sickened, when reading this, at the way these strategists twist the truth and try to politicize everything to their own gain. (as we saw recently at the Wellstone memorial when they turned it into a Democratic convention!)
There is a whole chapter on the inner workings of James Carville et.al that was eye opening to this now former Democrat!
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Summary: We will not tire...
Review: ...Sammon, a White House correspondent for the Washington Times, did a great job describing the moment-by-moment drama and horror of 9/11 and its aftermath from President Bush's point of view. With the help of interviews with the President and other members of the Bush administration along with his own observations, Sammon takes us through the events in a very well-paced narrative. I thought he did a particularly good job describing what President Bush did on 9/14/01 - the day he spoke at Washington National Cathedral in the morning, went to Ground Zero in the afternoon and spent part of the evening with victims' families at the Javits Center. Sammon does a great job evoking the emotion of that memorable day.FIGHTING BACK also takes aim at the media. In chapter 10, aptly titled "The Press Tires", Sammon writes of how it took only about three weeks of military action in Afghanistan for the media to drag out the old Vietnam analogies and to term the effort a "quagmire". He uses their own words to mock them (and they deserve it). Also interesting are his chapters on Democrat strategists and their focus pre- and post-9/11. James Carville and pollster Stan Greenberg were in a breakfast meeting with media on the morning of 9/11 and after a lengthy Bush bash, they get the news about the attack and Carville says "Disregard everything we just said - this changes everything." It only took them a couple of months to regroup and come out with their strategy that they support President Bush in the War on Terror but trash him on everything else. Not surprisingly, when that failed they decided to blame him for 9/11 with ... Hillary Clinton on the floor of the Senate with ... a copy of the New York Post with a blaring ... headline "Bush Knew", droning one of the Dems' favorite Nixon-era lines, "what did he know and when did he know it?" Sickening. FIGHTING BACK is an interesting look at recent events and is a timely reminder of what we've been through since 9/11/01.
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Summary: A Vivid Look at the War on Terror
Review: Sammon does an excellent job of putting you right THERE. From the morning of the attacks right through to near present. You get the sense that Bush really cares about doing what is best for the country, not just what the latest polls tell him is "best". I only thank God that he is in the White House directing the shots versus the alternative. We'd be ruled by the Taliban by now.
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Summary: Wow
Review: It's hard to imagine, after reading this book, why anyone would want to be President. Your damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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Summary: Thank God for George W. Bush
Review: I couldn't help but to appreciate the amount of candid content in this book. Bill Sammon maintained a very positive tone throughout each chapter - a pleasant surprise for me since the majority of the news media tend to lean against the Bush 43 Administration. This was an easy read and I don't doubt any of its contents.
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