A foreign correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Trudy Rubin writes the paper’s “Worldview” column and has traveled to war zones across the Middle East, including those in Iraq, Israel, and Lebanon, where she was one of only a few women journalists reporting in the 1980s. Willful Blindness collects Rubin’s “Worldview “columns on Iraq from 2002 through 2004, vividly portraying how she sees the Bush administration as having misconceived and mishandled the Iraq War.

A foreign correspondent who has reported from more than 140 countries, Robin Wright covers U.S. foreign policy for the Washington Post. She is the author of three previous books focused on modern Islam and contemporary Iranian politics. Of Dreams and Shadows, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright writes, “This volume, full of mesmerizing detail and large truths, sets a new standard for scholarship on the modern Middle East.”

Michael Scheuer served in the CIA for 22 years. As Chief of the bin Laden Unit at the Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999, Scheuer was personally involved in managing some of the largest and most covert actions in the Islamic World. In Marching Toward Hell, he argues that America is still unsafe from terrorists, not only because of the war in Iraq, but because of U.S. foreign policy since the end of the Cold War.