Power Wars: Inside Obama’s Post-9/11 Presidency Audiobook (Free)

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage’s penetrating analysis from the Obama presidency and the national security state

Barack Obama campaigned about changing George W. Bush’s ‘global battle on terror’ but ended up entrenching extraordinary executive power, from warrantless security and indefinite detention to armed service commissions and targeted killings. After that Obama found himself bequeathing those regulators to Donald Trump. How did america get here?

In Power Wars, Charlie Savage reveals high-level nationwide security legal and policy deliberations in a way no one did before. He tells inside stories of how Obama came to purchase the drone eliminating of the American citizen, preside over an unprecendented crackdown on leakages, and keep a then-secret plan that logged every American’s phone calls. Encompassing the initial comprehensive background of NSA monitoring over the past forty years as well as new information regarding the Osama bin Laden raid, Power Wars equips visitors to understand the legacy of Bush’s and Obama’s post-9/11 presidencies in the Trump era.