Obama and the Challenges to American Power

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power details the world that America faces.

Author David Sanger is considered one of the most trusted correspondence in Washington to whom presidents, secretaries of state, and foreign leaders talk with unusual candor.  He takes readers into the White House Situation Room to reveal how Washington penetrated Tehran's nuclear secrets, leading President Bush, in his last year, to secretly step up covert actions in a desperate effort to delay an Iranian bomb. Meanwhile, his intelligence chiefs made repeated secret mission to Pakistan as they tried to stem a growing insurgency and cope with an ally who was also aiding the enemy-while receiving billions of American military aid.

Throughout the book, Sanger lays out the world of challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the United States globally, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and China.

Obama now faces critical choices, among them:

• Is it better to learn how to live with a nuclear Iran or risk overt confrontation?
• Is it worth sending U.S. forces deep into Pakistani territory at the risk of undermining an unstable Pakistani government sitting on a nuclear arsenal?
• Is it a race against time and against a new effort by Islamic extremists-never before disclosed-to quietly infiltrate Pakistan's nuclear weapons program?

The Inheritance reveals the secret history of the U.S. foreign policy misadventures and a lucid explanation of the opportunities they create.

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power will be released by Harmony Books on December 29, 2009. David E. Sanger is the chief  Washington correspondent for the New York Times. He was a member of a team that won a Pulitizer Prize and has received numerous rewards for investigative, national security, and White House reporting.

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