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Duty [electronic resource] : Memoirs of a Secretary at War. Robert M Gates.

Gates, Robert M. (Author).

Summary:

From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he’d long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource

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Target Audience Note:
Text Difficulty 10 - Text Difficulty 12
1280 Lexile.
Subject:
Biography & Autobiography.
History.
Politics.
Nonfiction.

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