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From Follett
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-478) and index.;"A better life" -- "Look at yourself in the mirror" -- "You did what was right" -- "No more excuses" -- "Working for us" -- "It's the right fight" -- "If the White House is falling apart ..." -- "We thought you would cave -- "The combatant commander in the War on Terrorism" -- "Tell it like it is ... our national security depends on it" -- "Disrupt, dismantle, defeat" -- "Everywhere in the world" --"Go in and get Bin Laden" -- "To be free, we must also be secure" -- "A new defense strategy for the twenty-first century" -- "In together, out together" -- "I cannot imagine the pain" -- Leadership or crisis. An autobiography of Leon Panetta, who served the United States in his first career as an army intelligence officer, a member of Congress, and then as Clinton's White House Chief of Staff, and then after retirement, returned to public office as the director of the CIA in 2009, followed by an appointment to the position of Secretary of Defense inheriting two wars in a time of financial austerity.
From the Publisher
Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past fifty years. His first, beginning as an army intelligence officer and including a run as one of Congress's most powerful and respected members, lasted 35 years and culminated in his role as Clinton's budget czar and White House chief of staff. He then 'retired' to establish the Panetta Institute,to serve on the Iraq Study Group; and to protect the California coast. In 2009 he accepted what many said was a thankless task: returning to public office as the director of the CIA.