Steve Vogel

The Pentagon — A History

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“An amazing story, expertly researched and beautifully told. Part history, part adventure yarn, The Pentagon is above all else the biography of an American icon.” 

  --Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of AN ARMY AT DAWN

 

"Superb!  Not only the best biography of a building ever written, but a fascinating look at the human architecture behind the Pentagon--the saints and scoundrels of our national defense.  With his decades of experience covering the military and a web of insider connections, Steve Vogel has produced a book that's not only timely and a treat to read, but a stellar example of how to write history in the twenty-first century.”  

--Ralph Peters, author of Never Quit The Fight

 

“With so much intrigue and drama coursing through every page of the book, ‘The Pentagon: A History’ moves along with the accelerating speed and intensity of a riveting, first-rate spy thriller. Steve Vogel brings this massive building of stone and steel vividly to life, illuminating its controversial past and the in-fighting that almost prevented its creation, the visionary and indefatigable souls who constructed (and later re-constructed) it under impossible deadlines, and the secret rooms where some of the most consequential decisions in our history have been made. This book, like the Pentagon itself, is a stunning and monumental achievement.”
--Andrew Carroll, editor of the New York Times bestsellers, “War Letters” and “Behind the Lines”

The Untold Story of the Wartime Race to Build the Pentagon –

and to Restore it Sixty Years Later