Most Popular Books by Ron Suskind

National Bestseller Ron Suskind’s book promises to be a bracing international thriller – an ensemble of uranium merchants and panicked diplomats, stealthy Jihadist soldiers and CIA operatives, anxious Muslim children and angry world leaders – a diverse cast of players who will define the struggle between hope and fear in the modern era. Suskind will close the Bush years – a period he has helped to define – with a startling glimpse at what America actually faces across the roiling world. In the intelligence and military communities, the overwhelming concern is the uncontrolled spread of nuclear weapons and the ingredients from which weapons can be composed across a globe exploding with conflict and anti-American fervour. It is a failure of government that we are left with this overwhelming security issue – both domestically, where our security is deeply compromised, and internationally, where we face a host of seen and unseen threats. This book will explode in the middle of an election year with unparalleled disclosures and analysis. The book’s nature and timing will place it at the very centre of the election battle as it enters its final six months. It will be a must-read for anyone hoping to exercise truly informed consent.

The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair. In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out of more than 1,350 boasted an average of B or better. At Ballou, Cedric had almost no friends. He ate lunch in a classroom most days, plowing through the extra work he asked for, knowing that he was really competing with kids from other, harder schools. Cedric Jennings’s driving ambition—which was fully supported by his forceful mother—was to attend a top college. In September 1995, after years of near superhuman dedication, he realized that ambition when he began as a freshman at Brown University. But he didn''t leave his struggles behind. He found himself unprepared for college: he struggled to master classwork and fit in with the white upper-class students. Having traveled too far to turn back, Cedric was left to rely on his intelligence and his determination to maintain hope in the unseen—a future of acceptance and reward. In this updated edition, A Hope in the Unseen chronicles Cedric’s odyssey during his last two years of high school, follows him through his difficult first year at Brown, and tells the story of his subsequent successes in college and the world of work. Eye-opening, sometimes humorous, and often deeply moving, A Hope in the Unseen weaves a crucial new thread into the rich and ongoing narrative of the American experience.

The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence. Both centers of power, tapping brazen innovations over the past three decades, learned how to manufacture it. But in August 2007, that confidence finally began to crumble. In this gripping and brilliantly reported book, Ron Suskind tells the story of what happened next, as Wall Street struggled to save itself while a man with little experience and soaring rhetoric emerged from obscurity to usher in "a new era of responsibility." It is a story that follows the journey of Barack Obama, who rose as the country fell, offering the first full portrait of his tumultuous presidency.

Now an Award-Winning Motion Picture. What if you were trapped in a Disney movie? In all of them, actually - from Dumbo to Peter Pan to The Lion King -- and had to learn about life and love mostly from what could be gleaned from animated characters, dancing across a screen of color? Asking this question opens a doorway to the most extraordinary of stories. It is the saga of Owen Suskind, who happens to be the son of one of America''s most noted writers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind. He''s also autistic. The twisting, 20-year journey of this boy and his family will change that way you see autism, old Disney movies, and the power of imagination to heal a shattered, upside-down world.

A devestating account of the inner workings of the George W. Bush administration, written with the extensive cooperation of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O''Neill. As readers are taken to the very epicentre of government, this news-making book offers a definitive view of Bush and his closest advisers as they manage crucial domestic policies and global strategies within the most secretive White House of modern times.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind takes you deep inside America''s real battles with violent, unrelenting terrorists -- a game of kill-or-be-killed, from the Oval Office to the streets of Karachi. You may think you know what the "war on terror" is. But to know it truly, you must read this book. Suskind has written a riveting work of narrative nonfiction, filled with exclusive, historically significant disclosures that will echo across America and the world. What is the guiding principle of the world''s most powerful nation as it searches for enemies at home and abroad? The One Percent Doctrine is the deeply secretive core of America''s real playbook: a default strategy, designed by Dick Cheney, that separates America from its moorings, and has driven everything -- from war in Afghanistan to war in Iraq to the global search for jihadists. The story begins on September 12, 2001, the day America began to gather itself for a response to the unimaginable. Ultimately, that reply would shape the nation''s very character. Suskind tells us what actually occurred over the next three years, from the inside out, by tracing the steps of the key actors -- the notables, from the President and Vice President to George Tenet and Condoleezza Rice, who oversee the "war on terror" and report progress to an anxious nation; and the invisibles, the men and women just below the line of sight, left to improvise plans to defeat a new kind of enemy in an hour-by-hour race against disaster. The internal battles between these two teams -- one, under the hot lights; the other, actually fighting the fight -- reveal everything about what America faces, and what it has done, in this age of terror. Who is actually running U.S. foreign policy? Is there an operational cell, armed with WMDs, inside the United States? Have some of the world''s most dangerous terrorists -- including leaders of al Qaeda -- been caught and accidentally released? Can America prevail in this struggle against enemies who are patient, ingenious, certain, and have clear tactical advantage? With his unparalleled access to senior officials, past and present, Ron Suskind -- author of The Price of Loyalty, the most revealing book yet written on the Bush administration -- finally answers the questions that keep Americans awake at night. And in this startling book, he reframes the debates that roil the globe.

The author of The Price of Loyalty documents failed terrorist attacks against Americans while revealing the Bush administration''s efforts to outmaneuver increasingly adaptable and growing terrorist forces throughout the world. 200,000 first printing.

Em Vida animada, Ron Suskind conta como seu filho Owen, diagnosticado com autismo aos três anos, voltou a se conectar com o mundo através de animações da Disney. Esta é a história de Owen, um menino que pouco antes de completar três anos fecha-se em seu próprio mundo. Transtornados com a mudança repentina e radical, os pais tentam se reconectar com o filho autista. Três anos depois, numa brincadeira com um fantoche do Iago de Aladdin, Ron, imitando a voz do personagem, pergunta: "Então, Owen, como vão as coisas?". A resposta é estarrecedora: "Não estou feliz. Não tenho amigos. Não entendo o que as pessoas dizem". A partir daí, abre-se um canal de comunicação totalmente inusitado: através das animações da Disney, a que Owen assiste compulsivamente, a família vai conseguir se aproximar de seus sentimentos. Neste livro, Ron Suskind nos oferece um olhar radicalmente novo sobre o autismo. Em vez das limitações e incapacidades de Owen, suas conquistas são as linhas mestras dessa emocionante narrativa.

Examines the inner operations of the administration of George W. Bush through the experiences and assessments of former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O''Neill.

En enero de 2003, Al Qaeda abortó un ataque terrorista con gas letal en el metro de Nueva York un mes y medio antes de la fecha prevista para llevarlo a cabo. Este hecho escalofriante es el último eslabón de una cadena que empezó cuando la CIA dio con el ordenador de un yihadista de Bahrein, donde se había diseñado un sencillo artefacto que podía liberar rápidamente cianuro de hidrógeno en varios vagones de metro. De haberse producido el atentado, sus consecuencias podrían haber sido aún más sangrientas que las del 11-S. Ron Suskind saca a la luz este dato en La doctrina del 1% como muestra de que lo que sucedió a partir del 12 de septiembre de 2001 en Estados Unidos fue casi tan importante como lo acontecido el día anterior. Ese fue el día en que empezó a fraguarse la respuesta a la tragedia y que forjaría el carácter de la nación para las próximas décadas. También fue el día en que se crearon dos grandes escenarios para representar la venganza: el de las grandes caras conocidas que guiaban el barco del estado y que hacían pomposos pronunciamientos, y el de los hombres y mujeres que, invisibles al resto del mundo, estaban librando la auténtica batalla, es decir, interpretaban mensajes en clave, estudiaban pistas, recibían informes contradictorios, y, finalmente, ponían todo ello en manos de quien debía guiar el destino de la nación.Para entender la verdadera respuesta de Estados Unidos al 11-S es imprescindible escuchar el diálogo que se produce entre ambos grupos, a menudo tenso y casi siempre improvisado. Y es que la amenaza que se cierne sobre los cimientos del gran imperio estadounidense ya no es la oscilación del mercado de valores, sino el hecho de que un vigilante de seguridad de un centro comercial se percate de la presencia de un tipo que se pasea con abrigo en pleno verano y con un maletín en la mano, y que acto seguido llame al FBI. Allí alguien tendrá que valorar la veracidad de esa información y decidir si vale la pena seguir la pista. Lo malo es que ese “si” condicional marcó la diferencia el 11 de septiembre de 2001, y entre quienes pudieron haberlo evitado aún sigue pesando un lamento muy particular. Este libro habla de todo este proceloso y agitado proceso y revela cómo la guerra contra el terrorismo en la que Estados Unidos ha embarcado a medio mundo se está gestionando en medio de una gran y preocupante improvisación. Ron Suskind, ex jefe de la Sección Nacional de The Wall Street Journal entre 1993 y 2000, donde ganó un Premio Pulitzer (1995), colabora actualmente en diversos medios de comunicación norteamericanos como la revista Esquire, el magazine de The New York Times y la televisión pública (PBS). Su último libro, El precio de la lealtad, un libro devastador que desvela las mentiras de George W. Bush y de los miembros de su equipo, fue publicado también por Ediciones Península (2004).

Ron Suskind, célèbre journaliste américain lauréat du prix Pulitzer, raconte dans un récit stupéfiant le combat que mènent les Etats-Unis depuis le 11 septembre 2001 contre le terrorisme islamiste. L''enjeu ? Rien moins que tuer ou être tué. Quel principe guide la nation la plus puissante du monde pour démasquer ses ennemis, tant aux Etats-Unis qu''à l''étranger ? C''est la fameuse stratégie du 1 %, doctrine selon laquelle s''il n''existe que 1 % de possibilité qu''une quelconque menace pèse sur la sécurité de la nation, cette possibilité doit être considérée comme une certitude. Conçue par Dick Cheney, elle a conduit les Etats-Unis à porter la guerre en Afghanistan et en Irak afin d''éradiquer le mal islamiste. Ron Suskind démontre, à partir des conversations échangées dans le Bureau Ovale entre Bush, Cheney et Rumsfeld, comment les principaux acteurs de cette guerre se sont lancés dans la croisade la plus surprenante des temps modernes. Comment Condoleezza Rice et George Tenet, ministre de la Défense et ancien patron de la CIA, ont improvisé des plans de bataille destinés à anéantir une nouvelle espèce d''ennemis et engagé une course heure par heure contre un désastre prétendument annoncé. Les rivalités et les luttes intestines entre ces deux équipes permettent de comprendre la manière dont l''Amérique réagit face à la terreur. Avec cet ouvrage, immense best-seller aux Etats-Unis, Ron Suskind répond aux nombreuses questions qui empêchent les Américains de dormir, et éclaire d''un jour nouveau le cauchemar qu''ils sont en train de vivre.

Après le best-seller le Roman noir de la Maison-Blanche, Ron Suskind, lauréat du prix Pulitzer, raconte dans un livre captivant et brillamment documenté les quatre années de la présidence Obama. Promesses rognées par la récession, influence de conseillers trop proches de la finance, le journaliste-écrivain accompagne le lecteur dans les bureaux des grands banquiers et les coulisses de la vie quotidienne à la Maison-Blanche. Il restitue avec vivacité et verdeur les échanges entre le Président et les éminences grises qui le conseillent ou le détournent de son objectif. Obama a suscité trop d''espoir pour se laisser enliser dans les intérêts particuliers de Wall Street et les combines politiques de Washington. Et il le sait. À la fois mal assuré dans ses habits de président et pourtant sûr de ses convictions, il sort meurtri et grandi de ces années d''apprentissage au poste le plus puissant et le plus exposé de la planète. Jamais le lecteur n''aura approché d''aussi près l''intimité de la politique américaine au plus haut niveau et n''en aura suivi les détours à un rythme aussi haletant.

Appelé par son ami Dick Cheney au poste de secrétaire au Trésor en janvier 2001, Paul O''Neill a été pendant deux ans au cœur de l''administration Bush. Mais sa liberté de ton, sa réputation de " diseur de vérités " dérangent. En décembre 2002, il est limogé. " Le Président veut que j''annonce publiquement mon désir de retourner à la vie privée. Je n''ai jamais menti pendant tout ce temps et je ne vais pas m''y mettre aujourd''hui. Il peut bien nommer qui il veut... Mais je ne dirai pas que c''est moi qui démissionne. " Celui que Bush surnommait Pablo ou encore Big O a méticuleusement consigné notes de service, rapports officiels, comptes rendus de réunions, dossiers top secret et conversations privées entre les membres de la Maison-Blanche. Plus de dix-neuf mille documents qui, couplés avec les témoignages de Paul O''Neill lui-même et de plusieurs hauts fonctionnaires, permettent au journaliste Ron Suskind de révéler au grand jour les mensonges et les véritables ambitions du gouvernement Bush. En s''appuyant sur des preuves tangibles, ce récit brûlant, qui a déclenché une vive polémique à sa sortie aux États-Unis, décrit dans les moindres détails les coulisses de l''hyper-puissance américaine.

Investigation of how America relinguished the moral leadership and now desperately needs to fight the real threat of our era: a nuclear weapon in the hands of terrorists.