Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s DUTY: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, has been announced by Knopf for publication January 14, 2014. (It’s the first in a two-book deal announced in 2011.) Gates writes in the introduction that “this is a book about my more than four and a half years at war” but “also about my political war with Congress each day I was in office and the dramatic contrast between my public respect, bipartisanship, and calm, and my private frustration, disgust, and anger. There were also political wars with the White House, staff, and occasionally with the […]