- An] important book.- -- Steve Coll, The New Yorker -Klaidman . . . was] clearly given extraordinary access to key players in the administration . . . Provide s] scintillating details.- -- Washington Post

How has President Obama waged the war on terror? As lawyer-in-chief, he promised to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and engaged his inner circle in wrenching debates over the price of liberty and security. As commander-in-chief, he has become a decisive and lethal warrior, dealing out drone strikes and death sentences to suspected terrorists around the world....