Running The World Inside Story of the National Security Council David Rothkopf
Running The World: the Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power by Rothkopf, DavidHardcover with dust jacket in good condition.Never before in the history of mankind have so few people had so much power over so countless. The people at the top of the American national security establishment, the President and his principal advisors, the core team at the helm of the National Security Council, are without question the highly powerful committee in the history of the world.Yet, in many respects, they are among the least understood.A former senior official in the Clinton Administration himself, David Rothkopf served with and knows personally many of the NSC's key players of the past twenty-five years. In Running the World he pulls back the curtain on this shadowy world to explore its inner workings, its people, their relationships, their contributions and the occasions when they have gone wrong. He traces the group's evolution from the final days of t