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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War

✍ Scribed by Robert M. Gates

Book ID: 100098692
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0307959481

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✦ Synopsis

From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought hed long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.

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