Thomas Ricks is on "The Daily Show" tonight

[underpants]

http://www.thedailyshow.com/



http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Gamble/Thomas-E-Ricks/e/9781594201974

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-rutten10-2009feb10,0,2430638.story
"In 2005 the United States came close to losing the war in Iraq."

So writes Thomas E. Ricks, the Washington Post's senior military correspondent, in his gripping and brilliantly reported new book, "The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008." This is contemporary history of a vivid and urgent sort, and Ricks has produced a book that deserves to be read by any American who realizes that something other than today's economic news also is of vital interest to the nation.

The second half of "The Gamble" is a detailed and utterly gripping account of what Petraeus and his commanders did with their own theories (and all that unconventional advice) and how "the surge" that resulted achieved the tenuous -- though, according to Ricks, tenuous and temporary -- quasi-stability that now prevails in much of Iraq.

[Life Long Dem]

1. 2 reviews? 400 pages and it just come out on the same day?

Wow are they fast readers or plants or they had special special copies for favor to give a review?

http://www.amazon.com/Gamble-Petraeus-American-Adventure-2006-2008/dp/1594201978