Volume 51, Number 10 · June 10, 2004
A Cautionary Tale
By Brian Urquhart
Plan of Attack
by Bob Woodward
Simon and Schuster, 467 pp., $28.00
So far, 2004 is the year of the singing insider. In January Paul O'Neill, the former secretary of the Treasury, ascended to a high place on the best-seller list. In March the former counter-terrorism coordinator, Richard Clarke, vaulted over him to the top. In April the journalist/insider extraordinaire, Bob Woodward, surpassed all his predecessors. Although his book may represent the high-water mark of this flood of apparent revelation, there are certainly several smaller surges to come.
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