Caspar Weinberger Books In Order

Novels

  1. Enemy Within (1999)
  2. Chain of Command (2005)

Non fiction

  1. Fighting For Peace (1990)
  2. The Next War (1996)
  3. In the Arena (2001)
  4. Home of the Brave (2003)

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Caspar Weinberger Books Overview

Chain of Command

In this riveting novel by two of Washington’s ultimate insiders, the chain ofcommand is threatened when political power is bought in blood. Secret Service Agent Michael Delaney has devoted his entire career to protecting America’s highest ranking elected officials. But when his gun is found next to the bloody corpse of the President of the United States, he becomes the prime suspect in a brutal assassination that stuns the nation. As the vice president assumes control of the shaken government, a series of violent terrorist attacks is launched in cities across America, causing the government to take ever more desperate steps to keep the population safe. Shockingly, the resourceful enemy they are fighting comes not from another country but from within America’s borders. Unsure who he can trust, Delaney finds an unexpected ally in Mary Campos, the president’s newly appointed terrorism czar. With each passing hour, the potential for catastrophe grows and the web of evidence implicating Delaney in the plot grows more convincing. It will take all his cunning and years of special training to find out who is framing him for the murder of a president. Not only are his reputation and liberty at stake but the liberty of all Americans. Former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and acclaimed writer Peter Schweizer take readers deep inside the U.S. government’s secret halls of power. From the Pentagon to Camp David, from the White House Situation Room to the inner sanctums of the FBI, the authors share their intimate knowledge of Washington’s behind the scenes world to spin an explosive tale of intrigue that is chillingly real and breathtakingly suspenseful.

Fighting For Peace

Sure to make major headlines, this is a hard hitting inside look at the internal power plays surrounding military policy making in the ’80s, by President Reagan’s Secretary of Defense. 16 page photo insert.

The Next War

‘You can read The Next War as a military novel and find it riveting.’ Business Week

In the Arena

Caspar Weinberger’s life stretches over the American century. Born as America entered the First World War, with later boyhood memories of Herbert Hoover campaigning for president, Weinberger was a leading member of what is now known as the greatest generation. He fought in the Pacific in World War II under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. He entered California politics and eventually became one of Governor Ronald Reagan s top aides, sharing his chief s optimism and geniality as well as his budget goals. Another Californian, President Richard Nixon, brought Weinberger to Washington to cut the federal budget and advance the president s policy of social reform. In the 1980s, with the election of President Reagan, Weinberger became secretary of defense and oversaw the tremendous peacetime buildup of the U.S. military that restored America s confidence, brought the Soviet Union to the bargaining table, and led to the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Weinberger s warm and witty memoir, In the Arena, serves up all the insider details one would expect from a man who served in the highest reaches of government. But his book is also filled with sheer Americana, reminding us of where America has been and what she has achieved. Weinberger offers incisive portraits of: Ronald Reagan, whose very presence could make a cloudy day seem sunny, who understood the essence of leadership, and who achieved more foreign policy triumphs than any other postwar president Richard Nixon a man of great gifts, but deeply flawed, whose administration s compulsive secrecy and paranoia proved self defeating in the Watergate scandal General Douglas MacArthur, impressive even in his bathrobe a smoky voiced Tallulah Bankhead, interviewed by the Harvard Crimson s Caspar Weinberger Weinberger doesn t stint on controversy including the Iran contra scandal, an arms for hostages deal that Weinberger had always opposed and tried to stop, only to be persecuted by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh. Even now, in his eighties, the storms of politics behind him, Caspar Weinberger remains a globe trotting statesman for his country, and with In the Arena, he has written one of the most charming and important American autobiographies of our time.

Home of the Brave

They are nineteen of the most highly decorated soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines in the United States military, and yet most Americans don t even know their names. In this riveting, intimate account, former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Wynton C. Hall tell stories of jaw dropping heroism and hope in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Home of the Brave takes readers beyond the bullets and battles and into the hearts and minds of the men and women who are fighting terrorists overseas so that America doesn t have to fight them at home. These are the powerful, true life stories of the hopes, fears, and triumphs these men and women experienced fighting the War on Terror. But more than that, these are the stories of soldiers who risked everything to save lives and defend freedom. Including:

Lieutenant Colonel Mark Mitchell, the Green Beret leader whose 15 man Special Forces team took 500 Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners, and posthumously repatriated the body of the first American to die in combat in the War on Terror, CIA agent Johnny Mike Spann.

Army National Guard Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester, the first woman ever to be awarded the Silver Star for combat, whose sharp shooting and bravery played an enormous role in fighting off over fifty Iraqi insurgents while her ten person squad protected a convoy of supplies on the way to fellow soldiers.

Sergeant Rafael Peralta, a Mexican immigrant, enlisted in the Marines the same day he received his green card. Wounded from enemy fire, Peralta used his body to smother the blast of an enemy grenade and gave his life so that his marine brothers could live.

These real life heroes remind us of American history’s most enduring lesson: Ours would not be the land of the free if it were not also the Home of the Brave.

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