Power Wars: Inside Obama’s Post-9/11 Presidency

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PBS World Channel National Broadcast:  Virginia, February 21, 2016/Nationally, February 24, 2016

Charlie Savage is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and Washington correspondent for the New York Times. His new book, Power Wars, is an acclaimed journalist’s behind-the-scenes account of a momentous post-9/11 presidency. Savage’s book is one of the first comprehensive histories both of how secret American surveillance developed over the past 35 years, and an inside account of the Obama era, including his own reporting from the U.S. terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, detailed accounts of closed-door meetings at the highest levels of power, previously undisclosed secret memos, and vivid portraits of powerful officials whose names have rarely appeared in the press but who exercised great influence over the nation and the world.