Facts and Fears offers a privileged look inside the United States intelligence community and addresses with the frankness and professionalism for which James Clapper is known some of the most difficult challenges in our nation's history.
James Clapper served as the fourth United States Director of
National Intelligence--the United States' top intelligence officer
and President Obama's senior intelligence advisor--from 2010 until
2017. Beginning his career as an enlisted Marine Corps reservist in
1961, Clapper eventually became a three-star Air Force lieutenant
general and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, retiring
from uniformed service in 1995. In 2001 he returned to service,
becoming the first civilian director of the National Imaging and
Mapping Agency just three days after 9/11. In 2007 he was appointed
the Pentagon's top intelligence official, serving as an appointee
for both the Bush and Obama administrations before President Obama
appointed him as DNI.
Trey Brown is a 1997 graduate of the US Naval Academy who started
his career as a helicopter pilot and was twice deployed to the
Persian Gulf before returning to teach at his alma mater. After
serving as a US Navy spokesman from the Pentagon, he joined the
Office of the DNI, where he began writing speeches in 2011. He has
written hundreds of speeches, eight which were published in the
world's top speechwriting journal, Vital Speeches of the Day, and
was James Clapper's speechwriter for his final three years as DNI.
Clapper's speech to Morehouse College, "Why Black Lives Matter to
US Intelligence" received the grand prize of the 2017 international
Cicero speechwriting award.
"James Clapper has written the best book on intelligence in a
generation. . . . At a critical time in our nation, [Clapper]
offers a crucial insight into the threat we face. . . . His great
sense of humor also makes the book a pleasure to read."
—Brookings
"James Clapper might just be the nation's most experienced
intelligence officer ever. . . . Facts and Fears does more than
simply tell Clapper's own story. . . . Instead, he's written a book
that stands with the likes of Robert Gates' first memoir, From the
Shadows. . . . Clapper's book tells the first, thoughtful, in-depth
history of the rise of the American intelligence community as a
semi-united entity. . . . Readers of this memoir will find a more
complex and nuanced portrait than they might expect. The James
Clapper who comes across in the book possesses a self-deprecating
charm and a wry sense of humor. . . . Every chapter of the book
offers hard-earned lessons for our modern moment."
—Wired
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