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Attacking the Shield.(Hit to Kill: The New Battle over Shielding America from Missile Attack)

National Review

| December 31, 2001 | LOWRY, RICHARD | COPYRIGHT 2001 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Hit to Kill: The New Battle over Shielding America from Missile Attack, by Bradley Graham (Public Affairs, 430 pp., $27.50)

This book is what they call a "notebook dump," although it's an impressive and informative one. Washington Post reporter Bradley Graham has tracked down the most intimate details of the Clinton administration's deliberations on missile defense, and regales us with what seems to be every interoffice memo, every harsh word over a conference table, every bit of intramural diplomacy-all of which ultimately led to nothing.

It's not Graham's fault that his book ended up being about how an administration that really, deep down, didn't want ...

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