A Non Fiction book by Washington Post Reporter Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster on September 8, 2008. It is the fifteenth book written by Woodward, the fourth in a series of books about President George W. Bush. The book discusses the debate within the administration about the controversial Iraq Surge Strategy implemented in 2007. Alice Mayhew said in an official statement that “There has not been such an authoritative and intimate account of presidential decision making since the Nixon tapes and the Pentagon Papers. This is the declassification of what went on in secret, behind the scenes