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''Known and Unknown: A Memoir'' is an autobiographical book by Donald Henry Rumsfeld, an American politician and businessman who served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 and again from 2001 to 2006 (among many other positions). He published it through Penguin Group USA in February 2011. It covers a variety of his experiences such as working as a Republican in the U.S. House in the late-1960s, serving in the Ford Administration during the Watergate and Vietnam crises, and serving during the George W. Bush Administration through the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay scandals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Known and Unknown: A Memoir featuring The Honorable Donald Rumsfeld )〕 Rumsfeld makes a variety of statements about his positions meant to, in his view, correct the record. For example, he states that he always opposed using waterboarding during interrogations,〔 and he argues that the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse scandal constituted one of his biggest personal regrets. He recounts having delivered his resignation but that the President didn't accept it, with Rumsfeld writing that his failure to demand being released from his job "was a misjudgment".〔 In terms of commercial reception, the book was listed as number one on The New York Times Best Seller List for hardcover nonfiction, and number three for E-book nonfiction, on February 27, 2011. The book received several notable critical reviews. These have ranged from general support from publications such as ''City Journal'', where Victor Davis Hanson argued that "the onus shifts back onto Rumsfeld’s critics to prove him wrong or disingenuous",〔 to condemnation from publications such as ''The Huffington Post'' and ''The Financial Times'',〔〔 the latter in which ran comments by Andrew Bacevich panning the work as "tendentious rather than instructive".〔 Rumsfeld is giving all of his profits from the book's sale to veterans’ charities.〔 ==Background== The title, "Known and Unknown," is a play on Rumsfeld's famous remark in a February 12, 2002 press conference: Rumsfeld aide Keith Urbahn said pre-release on September 20, 2010, In the press conference when Rumsfeld first used the phrase, he was responding to a question by reporter Jim Miklaszewski about evidence of Iraq supplying terrorists with weapons of mass destruction. While some dismissed Rumsfeld statement as non-answer (compare Mu (negative))— not just an evasion or a misdirection,〔http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/the-certainty-of-donald-rumsfeld-part-1/〕 the statement has been quoted and dealt with in various blogs, books and scientific papers. Daase and Kessler (2007) agree with the aspect of both Knowledge and non-knowledge as being equally constitutive for political decisionmaking. They assume that the cognitive frame for political practice is determined by the relationship between ''what we know, what we do not know, what we cannot know and'' (according to the authors, being left out by Rumsfeld) ''what we do not like to know''.〔Knowns and Unknowns in the `War on Terror': Uncertainty and the Political Construction of Danger, Christopher Daase and Oliver Kessler, Security Dialogue, December 2007; vol. 38, 4: pp. 411-434.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Known and Unknown: A Memoir」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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