@article{323503,
      author = {Roston, Aram.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/323503},
      title = {The man who pushed America to war : the extraordinary  life, adventures, and obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi /},
      publisher = {Nation Books,},
      abstract = {If anyone were to get the most credit for pushing the  United States to war in Iraq, Ahmad Chalabi, a wealthy  exile who spent most of his life out of Iraq, would  certainly be a leading contender. A convicted felon and a  fugitive from justice in Jordan, Chalabi managed to charm  and influence the top leaders of the United States. Those  leaders gave him United States government money, which he  would, in turn, use to lobby them. He then rode America's  immense power, harnessing it to his interests. More so than  Bush or Cheney, Chalabi and his followers steered the  United States toward its fateful position in Iraq. This  investigative biography by an NBC journalist tells the  story of Chalabi as a gifted MIT mathematician, to his  misadventures in the Middle East, to the invasion of  Iraq.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {323503},
      pages = {xiv, 369 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2008},
}