READY, ATTACK!(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 12-APR-04

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In this time of war, it should perhaps come as little surprise that our emerging volumes of present-day history--particularly those insider accounts of the Bush White House--have titles suggestive of supermarket thrillers. "Against All Enemies," the recent tell-all by the former counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, shares its name with three recently published pulp novels--one about a group of McVeigh-style Idaho militiamen; one about Sudanese terrorists in possession of the Ebola virus; and a third about unilateral war with a rogue South American regime. "Plan of Attack," Bob Woodward's highly anticipated account of the current Iraq conflict, hits bookstores later this month--beating to the shelves by just three weeks another "Plan of Attack," by Dale Brown.

Woodward is the...

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