The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power

David E. Sanger

Jan 2009 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Robertson Dean

About this audiobook

The Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times examines the effect the Bush Administration’s foreign and domestic policies will have on global politics.

This trenchant analysis of the Bush Administration’s legacy is a riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the foreign policy decisions that have come out of the White House in the last eight years. Detailing the administration’s few successes and its stunning string of failures, this audiobook maps the world America faces after the Bush presidency. A veteran reporter with unprecedented access to Bush Administration officials, David E. Sanger provides keen insight to the complex challenges facing the next president, from rebuilding Afghanistan to preventing Iran and North Korea from becoming nuclear-armed states.

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About the author

David E. Sanger has received numerous journalistic awards, including being named twice among The New YorkTimes reporting teams honored with the Pulitzer Prize. He has also been awarded, twice, the Merriman Smith Award for his coverage of national security, the Weintal prize for diplomatic reporting, and earlier this year he and his colleagues won a DuPont Award. Sanger is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.