Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan: 9780307947048: Chandrasekaran, Rajiv

A New York Times Notable BookThe author of the acclaimed bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, tells the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the US’\'s political and military misadventure in Afghanistan.

In this meticulously reported and illuminating book, Rajiv Chandrasekaran focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of President Obama’\'s surge, and reveals the epic tug of war that occurred between the president and a military that increasingly went its own way.