Chain of Command, Seymour M. Hersh
Chain of Command, Seymour M. Hersh
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Chain of Command
The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

Author: Seymour M. Hersh

Narrator: Peter Friedman

Abridged: 7 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/05/2004

Synopsis

Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker magazine, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Gharaib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a divisive and dirty war in Iraq?Hersh established himself at the forefront of investigative journalism thirty-five years ago when he broke the news of the massacre in My Lai, Vietnam, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Ever since, he's challenged America's power elite by publishing the stories that others can't or won't tell.In Chain of Command, Hersh takes an unflinching look behind the public story of President Bush's ""war on terror"" and into the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. With an introduction by The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick, Chain of Command is a devastating portrait of an Administration blinded by ideology and of a President whose decisions have made the world a more dangerous place for America.Read by Peter Friedman

About Seymour M. Hersh

Seymour M. Hersh has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, four George Polk Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes, many of them for his work at the New York Times. In 2004, he won a National Magazine Award for public interest for his pieces on intelligence and the Iraq war. He lives in Washington, D.C. Chain of Command is his eighth book.

About Peter Friedman

Peter Friedman has appeared in The Heidi Chronicles and the musical Ragtime on Broadway; in the films Safe, The Seventh Sign, and Single White Female; and in the television series Brooklyn Bridge.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Al on January 05, 2008

Depressing as hell. I'd heard an interview with Hersh at the time who said that there was more video taped evidence that would make the Abu Ghraib stuff look like child's play. But it sounds like the CIA has disposed of those to avoid any further "embarrassment." This book is both stomach-turning an......more

Goodreads review by Jim on February 19, 2019

This is an exposé, a lifting of the veil, a peek beneath the circus tent. It brings to mind a line from an old song: "When the truth is found, to be lies . . ." Or you can stick your head where the sun don't shine and blow it off. Certainly the behavior exhibited at Abu Ghraib was dishonorable, but t......more

Goodreads review by Noel نوال on March 06, 2022

***Trigger Warning*** (Mentions of torture, rape, sexual assault, pedophilia, etc) I remember clearly on April 28th, 2004 when I was sitting with my parents as they watched the news and my dad in a panic quickly told my sisters and I to turn around and not look at the blurred images that came on the......more

Goodreads review by Tom on May 31, 2014

Seymour (Sy) Myron Hersh is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who first gained worldwide recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. His 2004 reports......more

Goodreads review by Will on October 29, 2008

CoC is a compilation of pieces Hersh wrote for the New Yorker about the Bush administration’s conduct of foreign policy. It is a devastating look at the details of what occurred, with a considerable quantity of named sources. For obvious reasons, it was impossible for all his sources to allow their......more

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