Style has served him well, but self-promotion made him enemies Richard Clarke, President Bush's former adviser on cybersecurity, and an expert on counterterrorism, speaks during an interview in Boston in 2002. Minutes after the second jetliner hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, Richard A. Clarke recounts in his new book, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice anointed him "crisis manager." The assignment meant Clarke, the White House counterterrorism adviser, found himself ordering around high-level officials and urging his superiors to ground air traffic, according to his account. Clarke also takes credit for barring President Bush from immediately returning...