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Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill offers a remarkably frank and revealing account of the Bush White House in The Price of Loyalty by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind. Working with the full cooperation of O’Neill and other highly placed administration figures - and drawing on more than 19,000 previously unavailable government documents - Suskind offers an unprecedented look inside George W. Bush’s White House. In this candid chronicle of the first two years of one of the most secretive administrations in history, Suskind delivers a string of headline-making revelations presented in vivid scenes witnessed by O’Neill, and other senior officials, and backed up by the documentary record. Suskind’s "experiment in transparency" puts us in the Oval Office with the President and allows a reader to draw his or her own conclusions.