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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes
a revelatory, insider’s look at how President Joe Biden and his
team have battled to achieve their agenda—based on the author’s
extraordinary access to the White House during two years of crises
at home and abroad. In January of 2021, the Biden administration
inherited the most daunting array of challenges since FDR’s
presidency: a lethal pandemic, a plummeting economy, an unresolved
twenty-year war, and the aftermath of an attack on the Capitol that
polarized the country. Waves of crises followed, including the
fallout from a divisive Supreme Court, raging inflation, and
Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Now prizewinning
journalist Chris Whipple takes us inside the Oval Office as the
critical decisions of Biden’s presidency are being made. With
remarkable access to both President Biden and his inner
circle—including Chief of Staff Ron Klain, Secretary of State
Antony Blinken, and CIA Director William Burns—Whipple pulls back
the curtain on the internal power struggles and back-room
compromises. Featuring shocking new details about how renegade
Trump officials enabled the transfer of power, which key staffers
really make the White House run (it’s probably not who you
think), why Joe Biden no longer speaks freely around his security
detail, and what he really thinks of Vice President Kamala Harris,
the press, and living in the White House, The Fight of His Life
“is a valuable first draft of history” (Publishers Weekly).
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers, a
remarkable, behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the
world's most powerful intelligence agency, and how the CIA is often
a crucial counterforce against presidents threatening to overstep
the powers of their office. Only 11 men and one woman are alive
today who have made the life-and-death decisions that come with
running the world's most powerful and influential intelligence
service. With unprecedented, deep access to nearly all these
individuals, Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that
answers to the United States president, but whose activities -
spying, espionage, and covert action - take place on every
continent. At pivotal moments, the CIA acts as a brake on rogue
presidents, starting in the mid-seventies with DCI Richard Helms'
refusal to conceal Richard Nixon's criminality and continuing
recently as the actions of a CIA whistleblower ignited impeachment
proceedings against Donald Trump. Since its inception in 1947, the
Central Intelligence Agency has been a powerful player on the world
stage, operating largely in the shadows to protect American
interests. For The Spymasters, Whipple conducted extensive,
exclusive interviews with nearly every living CIA director, pulling
back the curtain on the world's elite spy agency and showing how
the CIA partners - or clashes - with counterparts in Britain,
France, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Russia. Topics
covered in the book include attempts by presidents to use the
agency for their own ends; simmering problems in the Middle East
and Asia; rogue nuclear threats; and cyberwarfare. The Spymasters
recounts seven decades of CIA activity and elicits predictions
about the issues - and threats - that will engage the attention of
future operatives and analysts. Including eye-opening interviews
with George Tenet, John Brennan, Leon Panetta and David Petraeus,
as well as those who've just recently departed the agency, this is
a timely, essential and important contribution to current events.
The theme of this volume--risk analysis in the private
sector--reflects a changing emphasis in risk analysis. Until re
cently, attention has been focused on risk analyses conducted in
support of federal regulatory decision making. Such analyses have
been used to help set safety standards, to illuminate issues of
regulatory concern, and to evaluate regulatory alternatives. As
this volume indicates, however, risk analysis encompasses a broader
set of activities. Analyses performed by private sector
institutions aimed at preventing or reducing potential adverse
health or environmental effects also play an important part in
societal risk management. In virtually all societies, there have
been strong incentives for the private sector to conduct such
analyses. These incentives range from moral or altruistic norms and
values to simple self-interest based on fear of monetary loss,
possible civil or criminal litigation, or punitive or restrictive
government action. The papers in this volume address the overall
theme from a variety of perspectives. Specifically, the papers
represent con tributions from such diverse fields as toxicology,
epidemiology, chemistry, biology, engineering, statistics, decision
analysis, economics, psychology, philosophy, and the law."
On May 29 and 30, 1985, a workshop was held to explore the legal,
ethical, social, scientific, and practical aspects of the use of
the de minimis risk concept for health and safety regulation. The
workshop was sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis and its
National Capital Area Chapter, the Environmental Protection Agency,
the Nuclear Reg ulatory Commission, and the Electric Power Research
Institute. The two-day meeting was held in Washington, D. C., at
the Brookings Institution; however, the Brookings Institution was
not a sponsor of the meeting and did not playa role in its program.
De minimis risk policy considerations were addressed from a
theoretical and phil osophical viewpoint, from a quantitative and
methodological basis, and through insights gained with regulatory
applications. The distinctions between these three approaches to
the subject are not sharp; most papers in these proceedings address
aspects of all three topics. The reader familiar with the
literature on the use of risk assessment in regulatory policy and
decision making will find significant new contributions to the
field. One of these is the examination of regulatory actions-in
particular actions by the EPA-in response to risks of varying
magnitude. Many attempts to seek patterns in regulatory policies
have been based on analysis of the implicit economic value in
obtaining risk reductions. These analyses have typically found
great variability in the marginal cost 1 effectiveness of
regulatory actions."
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes
a revelatory, news-making look at how President Joe Biden and his
seasoned team have battled to achieve their agenda-based on the
author's extraordinary access to the White House during two years
of crises at home and abroad. In January of 2021, the Biden
administration inherited the most daunting array of challenges
since FDR's presidency: a lethal pandemic, a plummeting economy, an
unresolved twenty-year war, and the aftermath of an attack on the
Capitol that polarized the country. Waves of crises followed,
including the fallout from a divisive Supreme Court, raging
inflation, and Vladimir Putin's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Now, in The Fight of His Life, prizewinning journalist Chris
Whipple takes us inside the Oval Office as the critical decisions
of Biden's presidency are being made. With remarkable access to
both President Biden and his inner circle-including Chief of Staff
Ron Klain, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and CIA Director
William Burns-Whipple pulls back the curtain on the internal power
struggles and back-room compromises. Featuring shocking new details
about how renegade Trump officials enabled the transfer of power,
which key staffers really make the White House run (it's probably
not who you think), why Joe Biden no longer speaks freely around
his security detail, and what he really thinks of Vice President
Kamala Harris, the press, and living in the White House, The Fight
of His Life delivers a stunning portrait of politics on the edge.
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