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SEAL Treats! St. Martin's Wins the Bin Laden Book Battle

By Emily Witt | May 3, 2011 | 7:55 pm

In the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's death, publishers have clamored to sign deals about the event. Former Newsweek chief Jon Meacham is editing an e-book essay collection called "Beyond Bin Laden" for Random House. Peter Bergen has been signed by Crown to write the "definitive" book, tentatively called The Manhunt. One publisher, however, is ahead of the... MORE >

Not That Kind of War

By Wesley Yang | January 25, 2011 | 8:13 pm

The great military strategist Carl Von Clausewitz declared it "the supreme ... act of judgment that the statesmen and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it nor trying to turn it into something which is alien to its nature." By contrast, President George W. Bush declared, in the words of Peter Bergen, "an ambiguous and open-ended conflict against a tactic," in... MORE >