Worthy fights : a memoir of leadership in war and peace

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Worthy fights : a memoir of leadership in war and peace

Title remainder

a memoir of leadership in war and peace

Statement of responsibility

Leon Panetta ; with Jim Newton

Creator

• truePanetta, Leon
• Panetta, Leon E., 1938-

Contributor

• trueNewton, Jim, 1963-
• Newton, Jim, 1963-

Author

• Newton, Jim, 1963-
• Panetta, Leon E., 1938-

Subject

• trueLife stories -- Politics | Politicians
• truePanetta, Leon
• Panetta, Leon E, 1938-
• United States -- Foreign relations -- 2009-2017
• United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- Officials and employees -- Biography
• trueUnited States, Secretary of Defense
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
• trueWar on Terrorism, 2001-2009
• trueIntelligence service -- United States
• trueDirectors of Central Intelligence
• Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography
• trueAutobiographies and memoirs

Genre

• trueAutobiographies and memoirs
• trueBiography
• trueLife stories

Language

eng

Summary

Leon Panetta's first career, beginning as an army intelligence officer and including 16 years in the House of Representatives, lasted thirty-five years and culminated in his role as Clinton's budget czar and White House chief of staff. He then "retired" to establish the Panetta Institute with his wife of fifty years, Sylvia; to serve on the Iraq Study Group; and to protect his beloved California coastline. But in 2009, he accepted what many said was a thankless task: returning to public office as the director of the CIA, taking it from a state of turmoil after the Bush-era torture debates and moving it back to the vital center of America's war against Al Qaeda, including the campaign that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. And then, in the wake of bin Laden's death, Panetta became the U.S. Secretary of Defense, inheriting two troubled wars in a time of austerity and painful choices. Worthy Fights is a reflection of Panetta's values. It is imbued with the frank, grounded, and often quite funny spirit of a man who never lost touch with where he came from: his family's walnut farm in beautiful Carmel Valley, California. It is also a testament to a lost kind of political leadership, which favors progress and duty to country over partisanship. Panetta is a Democrat who pushed for balanced budgets while also expanding care for the elderly and sick; a devout Catholic who opposes the death penalty but had to weigh every drone strike from 2009 through 2011. Throughout his career, Panetta's polestar has been his belief that a public servant's real choice is between leadership or crisis. Troubles always come about through no fault of one's own, but most can be prevented with courage and foresight

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Writing style

• trueAccessible
• trueDescriptive

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

TOH

Dewey number

• 327.12730092
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

E840.8.P34

LC item number

A3 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult