“A touching story. … Suskind is a skilled reporter… The moral of Suskind’s story, in short, is that nothing suceeds like truthfulness.” — The Washington Post Book World

“Suskind’s reporting continues to make him an indispensable chronicler of the Bush/Cheney debacle.” — Tim Rutten, The Los Angeles Times

“Ron Suskind does not think small. … A sweeping examination of moral authority in a global world and how a post-9/11 America seems to have lost its way.” — The Boston Globe

“A bombshell book.” — The Today Show

“An explosive new book.” — MSNBC.com

“There is much more to learn from Suskind’s reporting, including new evidence that Bush and other officials knew there were no WMD in Iraq.” — Joe Conason, Salon

“An ambitious attempt to weave all the strands of our current conflict into a unified whole. … Ron Suskind’s new book has earned buzz because of his arresting argument that the Bush administration actually forged evidence to buttress its case for war.” — Andrew Sullivan

“Moving. … Mr. Suskind is a prodigiously talented craftsman. … It’s all here: a cast of characters that sprawls across class and circumstance to represent the totality of a historical moment. … These hard times, Mr. Suskind’s book suggests, call for a nonfiction Dickens.” — The New York Observer

“Outstanding. … A searching, globe-hopping masterpiece of investigative journalism and empathetic prose. Amidst the ‘arabesque’ of richly drawn characters, Suskind reveals a few bombshell discoveries regarding the Bush Administration’s irresponsibility and outright lies.” — The Huffington Post

“The leading chronicler of the forty-third president.” — Esquire

“Ron Suskind has traced the history of the Bush years with a novelist’s ear. Now he looks at the tragedy through the eye of the victims.” — The American Prospect

“Suskind is a brilliant reporter and his investigation into the post— 9/11, pre-Iraq war period makes you think you’re reading about it for the first time. … It’s damning. Give this man another Pulitzer Prize.” — Christopher Buckley, The Daily Beast

“Incisive. … No journalist has more ably explored the dark crevices of the Bush administration’s foreign policy. … Suskind has shown that faith — the wrong kind of faith, anyway — can produce disaster.” — Salon

“Extraordinary. … If Mr Suskind is correct, laws have been broken and President George W. Bush and/or Dick Cheney are implicated. … This is—or ought to be—a Watergate-sized scandal.” — Clive Crook, The Financial Times

“Startling. … Chilling. … A reportorial feat. … Suskind skillfully traces several interwoven stories of cultural clashes and cross-pollination, all of them pursuing the questions of whether America and the Muslim world can ever look past their differences and find understanding.” — Michael Crowley, The New York Times Book Review

“Complex, ambitious, provocative, risky. … In a crowded, highly talented field, Mr. Suskind bids fair to claim the crown as the most perceptive, incisive, dogged chronicler of the inner workings of the Bush administration.” — Mark Danner, The New York Times

“A vivid snapshot of a year, 2006–2007, in the life of a nation whose leaders have betrayed its high moral purpose. One of Suskind’s Washington players cries into the darkness, “Can the great beast self-correct?” Can America, Suskind asks, recover its missionary rectitude? He clearly thinks it can.” — The Sunday Times (London)