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According to author Craig Unger, the presidency of George W. Bush has led to the worst foreign policy decision in the history of the United States: the bloody, un-winnable war in Iraq. How exactly did this happen? Unger asserts that Bush’s fateful decision was rooted in events that began decades ago.

The Fall of the House of Bush is Unger’s comprehensive and dramatic account of how and why George W. Bush took America to war in Iraq.

Craig Unger is the author of the New York Times bestseller House of Bush, House of Saud. Unger is a frequent contributor to CNN, Esquire, and The New Yorker and he is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a Fellow at the Center for Law and Security at NYU’s School of Law.

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