Título: The Italian Letter
Autor: Peter Eisner
Sinopse: The so-called Italian letter is a package of allegedly forged documents that seem to be based on articles stolen from the Nigerian embassy in Rome in 2001. The document was nonetheless adopted by the Bush administration as a basis for going to war with Iraq, even though the letter has been widely dismissed by a variety of key players in the U.S. Intelligence Community years before President Bush cited it in his 2003 State of the Union speech. Eiser, a Washington Post editor, and Royce, a legendary investigative reporter in Washington, have produced a work that takes readers from Italy, to Niger, to Iraq, and into the Washington offices of the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and inside the White House itself, to show that the document was a forgery. They suggest that this was not a case of finding out too late that certain intelligence information was faulty, but rather that the Bush administration used information it knew to be false to convince the Congress and the American public that Saddam Hussein was seeking materials to make a nuclear bomb. While news accounts and several books have exposed bits and pieces of this effort, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive, detailed account, relying on sources within the American Intelligence Community along with documents and human sources from all over the world, many of them exposed for the first time. Key players in a true-life drama that continues to unfold including Scooter Libby, Joseph Wilson, Dick Cheney, George Tenet, and even George W. Bush, occupy this stage with such lesser known figures as Italian journalist ElisabettaBurba and an intelligence freelancer named Rocca Martino.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Italian Letter”, de Peter Eisner, publicado pela editora Rodale, em 2007 e com 241 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Rodale
Páginas: 241
Ano: 2007
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 1594865736
ISBN13: 9781594865732
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Rodale convidam o leitor a explorar temas de saúde, bem-estar e sustentabilidade com uma abordagem prática e acessível. A experiência de leitura costuma equilibrar informações detalhadas sobre alimentação, exercícios e práticas de mindfulness com relatos pessoais e orientações diretas, criando um tom que varia entre o inspirador e o didático. O catálogo apresenta obras que vão desde guias para dietas específicas e rotinas de treino até reflexões sobre hábitos alimentares e o impacto ambiental, sugerindo um interesse por transformações pessoais ligadas a escolhas conscientes. Em geral, as narrativas mantêm um ritmo claro e objetivo, com foco em resultados tangíveis para o leitor que busca mudança e autoconhecimento.
