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Undaunted
- My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad
- Narrated by: John O. Brennan
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
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This program is read by the author.
A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than 30 years in government.
Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan’s alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would be routine. That day marked his first and only security briefing with President-elect Donald Trump. And it was also the day John Brennan said his final farewell to Owen Brennan, his father, the man who had taught him the lessons of goodness, integrity, and honor that had shaped the course of an unparalleled career serving his country from within the intelligence community.
In this brutally honest memoir, Brennan, the son of an Irish immigrant who settled in New Jersey, describes the life that took him from being a young CIA recruit enamored with the mystique of spy work, secretly defiant enough to drive a motorcycle and sport a diamond earring, and invigorated by his travels in the Middle East, to being the most powerful individual in American intelligence. He details his experiences with very different presidents and what it’s been like to bear responsibility for some of the nation’s most crucial and polarizing national security decisions.
He pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the Agency, describing the selfless, patriotic, and invisible work of the women and men involved in national security. He also examines the insularity, arrogance, and myopia that have, at times, undermined its reputation in the eyes of the American people and of members of other branches of government. Through topics ranging from George W. Bush’s intervention in Iraq to his thoughts on the CIA’s controversial use of enhanced interrogation techniques to his eye-opening account of the planning of the raid that resulted in Bin Ladin’s death to his realization that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election, Brennan brings the listener behind the scenes of some of the most crucial moments in recent US history. He also candidly discusses the times he has failed to live up to his own high standards and the very public fallouts that have resulted.
With its behind-the-scenes look at how major US national security policies and actions unfolded during his long and distinguished career - especially during his eight years in the Obama administration - John Brennan’s memoir is a work of history with strong implications for the future of America and our country’s relationships with other world powers.
Undaunted: My Fight Against America’s Enemies, at Home and Abroad offers a rare and insightful look at the often-obscured world of national security, the intelligence profession, and Washington’s chaotic political environment. But more than that, it is a portrait of a man striving for integrity; for himself, for the CIA, and for his country.
A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books
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- Saurav S.
- 17-03-24
Great memoir, and a good lesson to be “Undaunted”
I loved the book, I have no complaints, I thank him for the lesson to be undaunted even in the face of things which are not in your favour or trying to break you, you must remain UNDAUNTED. But I also wanna warn the readers, Mr.Brennan may have strong opinions on Trump, most of them being accurate of Trump being a narcissist, insulant, rude, intimidating, power abusing etc, PLEASE DO NOT Become an outright hater of Trump, I totally agree with Mr. Brennan’s views on many things but I hope he’d tell certain things which are Good about Trump Administration, like his far sightedness of Foreign Affairs like the Rise of China, zero new wars etc sure there are some troublesome issues of it, mainly to ignore Russian influence in the world in certain matters and Breaking up NATO and all. He ain’t the worst or best president either of the US.
Mr.Brennan’s statements are all his personal opinions on Trump, Kindly just listen to them and try to understand them, don’t just follow it, try to fill your own knowledge on matters and let this book be like a café conversation with Mr.Brennan, where he inspires you to be Undaunted and shares his personal views on Trump.
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