Master of War: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the Business of War
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (639 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005IUY3VO |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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. In this often glowing, mildly critical portrait, Prince is depicted as a fierce individualist, visionary entrepreneur and patriot, an upstanding guy's guy, albeit born into enormous privilege, right-wing values and Beltway ties. Certain contradictions ensue: Prince is known to be deeply religious, so his affair while his first wife is dying of cancer surprised many friends. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. A determined overachiever, Prince trained as a navy SEAL until his father's death led him to an enterprising idea to provide the training facilities SEALs needed. Simons's premise—that all questions arising from Blackwater's relevance go back to one man—justifies emphasis on the personal, but the book is most instructive when straying to include Dick Cheney's impact on Pentagon outsourcing or General Sanchez's frustration over boundary confusion in Iraq between U.S. Likewise, Prince's free
. She has also worked as a freelance anchor for CNN International since 1988 in both Berlin and Atlanta. She was a freelance foreign correspondent in Germany and covered the Kosovo conflict from Macedonia and Kosovo in 1999. Suzanne Kelly Simons is an Executive Producer at CNN based in Atlanta
J. Larson said So That's How It Worked. 1) This book is a quick read that provides a very broad treatment of Erik Prince and his Company Blackwater. You read it because you have an interest in how someone lives their life and how they created a vision and then made it come to life."So That's How It Worked" according to J. Larson. 1) This book is a quick read that provides a very broad treatment of Erik Prince and his Company Blackwater. You read it because you have an interest in how someone lives their life and how they created a vision and then made it come to life.2) I walked away with resp. ) I walked away with resp. Eye opening I was recommended this book by a friend who is really into things like Tom Clancy which isn't my thing but i was pleasantly suprised.Coming from New Zealand we get very little coverage of the way the wars in the middle east are fought or the politics behind the scenes. JetRangerMaster of War: I really enjoyed this book. I have a Blackwater sticker on the back window of my ford Explorer, and I have been to blackwater in Moyock. Plus I am a helicopter pilot. Reading this book makes me more proud of my sticker. CNN did Journalistic Malpractice. They just want. said Master of War:. I really enjoyed this book. I have a Blackwater sticker on the back window of my ford Explorer, and I have been to blackwater in Moyock. Plus I am a helicopter pilot. Reading this book makes me more proud of my sticker. CNN did Journalistic Malpractice. They just want
“Suzanne Simons is a masterful storyteller. But make no mistake—Master of War is not a work of fiction….A powerful and true account.”—Wolf Blitzer, anchor, CNN’s The Situation Room Master of War is the riveting true story of Eric Prince, the ex-Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater and built the world’s largest military contractor, privatizing war for client nations around the world. A CNN producer and anchor, Suzanne Simons is the first journalist to get deep inside Blackwater—and, as a result of her unprecedented access, Master of War provides the most complete and revelatory account of the rise of this powerful corporate army and the remarkable entrepreneur who brought it into being, while offering an eye-opening, behind-the-scenes look at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.