/* Rotating image or text(You can use for changing banners) Author: Narayan Chand Thakur Source: http://ncthakur.itgo.com/ This may be used freely as long as this message is intact. */ var item=new Array() item[0]=""Mesmerizing… vivid portraits of everyone from Henry Kissinger to Samuel R. Berger, from George Tenet to Condoleezza Rice. Few reputations emerge unscathed …Shenon vividly illuminates the obstacles to holding high-level intelligence and government officials accountable for their bungling."

—Jacob Heilbrunn, The New York Times Book Review, 4/13/08
" item[1]=""Tragicomic Tale of the 9/11 Report…. Mr. Shenon is a skillful writer and storyteller as well as a dogged reporter. In "The Commission," he makes bureaucratic warfare exciting, largely because he has a keen grasp of human frailty and folly…. Ultimately, as Mr. Shenon shows, the failure at the highest levels of the United States government was human. That is the real back story of 9/11. "

—Evan Thomas, The New York Times, 2/4/08, www.nytimes.com
" item[2]=""New book reveals clashes behind the 9/11 probe… Shenon's account uncovers a far greater degree of behind-the-scenes political maneuvering and bitter personal clashes than most people associate with the 9/11 panel."

—Newsweek, 2/4/08, www.newsweek.com
" item[3]=""Fascinating."

—John Stewart, "The Daily Show" www.thedailyshow.com
" item[4]=""I think Shenon did a remarkable job of bringing what could have been a dry topic to life, making it a fascinating read and a real insight into the Bush White House and its amoral attitude toward governing."

—Richard A. Clarke, former White House terrorism advisor, author, Against All Enemies, 2/12/08, www.publishersweekly.com
" item[5]=""The Commission by Philip Shenon is a Startling, Riveting, Disturbing Read about the "Uncensored" History of the 9/11 Investigation…Stunning history … This is an eye-opening look inside the 9/11 Commission, juicy in details and personalities."

—Dermot McEvoy, Publishers Weekly, 2/08/08, www.publishersweekly.com
" item[6]=""New York Timesman Philip Shenon's fast-paced, complex history of the commission… It's a history that's both reassuring and disturbing, a compelling primer on how Washington works –– and doesn't –– in times of crisis … The Commission is hard to put down."

—Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2/17/08, www.post-gazette.com
" item[7]=""Lifting the veil to understand the 9/11 Commission … clearly written, meticulously detailed, exhaustively reported account … the cumulative effect of reading all of it in one book is stunning."

—Colette Bancroft, St. Petersburg Times, 2/17/08, www.sptimes.com
" item[8]=""Spellbinding new book… A series of gripping vignettes… dazzled by this surprisingly vibrant expose of the government of our time."

—Elizabeth Benedict, The Huffington Post, 3/7/08, www.huffingtonpost.com
" item[9]=""I literally could not put it down… Fascinating… It owes a lot to Robert Ludlum. I felt I was reading a teleplay for ’24."

—Michael Duffy, Time Magazine, 3/9/08, www.booktv.org
" item[10]=""You will be hopping mad after reading Philip Shenon's The Commission… The almost total dysfunction of the government agencies charged with protecting us – particularly the FBI, which was almost dissolved –– is also brought to light."
—Tom Walker, Denver Post, 3/15/08, www.denverpost.com
" item[11]=""Rich slice of investigative journalism…. Fascinating…. The Commission is a masters’ thesis in human frailty."
—Peter Preston, The Observer (London), 3/23/08, www.books.guardian.co.uk
" item[12]=""The Commission offers a luminous window into the world of the power-hungry, sleep-deprived overachievers who control our destiny."
—Edward Cuddihy, The Buffalo News, 3/30/08
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