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Book Jacket WHAT HAPPENED
Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
SCOTT MCCLELLAN
SUMMARY  |  EXCERPT   |  QUOTES
The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak on his behalf and help restore credibility he lost amid the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. So I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the senior-most aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

There was one problem. It was not true.

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the President himself.

HARDCOVER
ISBN 978-1-58648-556-6
Pub date: 05/28/08
Price: $27.95/33.50 Canada
61⁄8 x 9¼
400 pages
Carton Quantity: 24
Current Events, Politics
Selling Territory: W
Rights: First Serial, British Commonwealth, Translation, Audio & Electronic Rights: PublicAffairs
Performance Rights: Craig Wiley Agency

PAPERBACK
ISBN 978-1-58648-700-3
Pub date: 05/11/09
Price: $16.95/19.50 Canada
5 1/2 x 8 1/4
368 pages
Carton Quantity: 32
Biography, Politics
Selling Territory: W
Pub history: 978-1-58648-556-6

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