Shimer provides a subtle and evenhanded portrait of a White House in an unprecedented crisis.

... [an] important new history.

... absorbing.

... offers a convincing analysis of what changed in the three decades since the cold war and with the arrival in the Kremlin of Vladimir Putin.

... provides decades of context to one of the most sophisticated acts of propaganda in modern history.

... provocative and well-sourced.

... thoroughgoing.