Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama

Hand—Off details the Bush administration’s national security and foreign policy as described at the time in then—classified Transition Memoranda prepared by the National Security Council experts who advised President Bush. Thirty of these Transition Memoranda, newly declassified and here made public for the first time, provide a detailed, comprehensive, and first—hand look at the foreign policy the Bush administration turned over to President Obama. In a postscript to each memorandum, these...