• Yet the questions began again this week after former White House chief of staff Andrew Card confirmed an account in a new book by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward that Card had discussed replacing Rumsfeld with President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.

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  • The first third of the book gives an absorbing account of the making of an economist.

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  • His book is an impressive account of a world that few readers of this newspaper will recognise.

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  • This book is an enriching account that combines personal confessions, like when he was kidnapped, and experiences to subjects like sports, love, faith and self-knowledge.

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  • Although as an account of the events of the war, the book can be commended, its explanatory framework is therefore anachronistic and incomplete.

    ECONOMIST: Modern Greek history

  • That's when I realized I had entered the uncharted (for me) territory of second-person Meera would address the book to her son, as an account, an exculpation, of their life together.

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  • In practice, they accept special offers to members of a loyalty club, or to people who book tickets early or keep a big balance on an account.

    ECONOMIST: Managing customers

  • As an account of one of the most sensitive episodes of contemporary Asian history, this book cannot be bettered (see article).

    ECONOMIST: General non-fiction

  • Davern, the former captain of the yacht Splendour, broke his silence with an account of that day in "Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour, " a book he co-wrote that was published in 2009.

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  • In his new book, Evening's Empire, historian Craig Koslofsky puts forward an account of how this happened.

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  • "A historical account of the US economy sounds boring, but I found the book an easy read, " said Ghodsi.

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  • Ms Neighbour offers no grand prescriptions for dealing with terrorism, but her book is a compelling, readable and well-informed account of an Islamist terror network that has spread across South-East Asia.

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  • An excellent account of this story is revealed in Stephen Kinzer's alarming and revealing book, "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, " where he writes that Iran was establishing a government close to a democracy.

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  • The New York Times on Friday published an account of the U.S. cyberattack operation in an excerpt from a forthcoming book by one of its reporters, David Sanger, that he said he has been working on for a year.

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  • That gets its first outing in the Book of Revelation, a lurid account of the apocalypse probably best read as an allegory of the individual Christian's journey to salvation.

    ECONOMIST: Heaven on earth

  • Mr Rose, who as an historian of the book belongs to a growing sub-discipline, has written a masterly account of the way in which the British working classes (and that term must remain emphatically plural, since Mr Rose moves from the landlocked rural poor, to London's Jewish East End, to the clattering factory towns of north-western England) have taught, soothed and entertained themselves through their own intellectual resources.

    ECONOMIST: Cultural history

  • "As downloads will be synced to the hotel's account, guests will only be able to read the downloaded book during their stay, " an InterContinental representative said.

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  • Suze Orman, for example, wrote in her most recent book, The Money Class, that 8 months of savings in an interest-bearing checking account is simply a must.

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  • The onetime oil man has been drilling for answers ever since, first with "Rescuing Da Vinci" (2006), a book of photographs, and then with "The Monuments Men" (2009), an account of a special Allied force museum directors, curators and conservators who risked their lives to keep the world's masterpieces from falling into enemy hands.

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  • In 2007 Tristane Banon, a young writer, gave a televised account of what she claimed was an attack on her by Mr Strauss-Kahn when she interviewed him for a book in 2002.

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  • Pentagon officials decided to give the book another read, after a member of the Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden released an account of the raid without submitting the manuscript for a security review.

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