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Cheney : the untold story of America's most powerful and controversial vice president

Title
Cheney : the untold story of America's most powerful and controversial vice president / Stephen F. Hayes.
Author
Hayes, Stephen F.
Publication
New York : HarperCollins, 2007.

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Description
xii, 578 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
During a forty-year career in politics, Vice President Dick Cheney has been involved in some of the most consequential decisions in recent American history. Yet for all of his influence, the world knows very little about the most powerful vice president in U.S. history, among the most secretive and guarded of all public officials. Journalist Hayes draws upon hundreds of interviews with the vice president, his boyhood friends, political mentors, family members, reticent staffers, and senior Bush administration officials, to deliver a comprehensive portrait. The topics covered include Cheney's withdrawal from Yale; his days in the Ford White House; his meteoric rise to congressional leadership; his opposition to removing Saddam Hussein from power after the first Gulf War; his selection as Bush's running mate; his performance on 9/11 and the aggressive measures he pushed in the aftermath; the Iraq War; and intelligence battles with the CIA and their lasting effects.--From publisher description.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The West -- To Yale and back -- Choosing government -- The Ford years -- On the ballot -- Leadership -- At war -- President Cheney? -- Another George Bush -- The Bush administration -- September 11, 2001 -- Secure, undisclosed -- Back to Baghdad -- The war over the war -- War and politics, politics and war -- Dick Cheney: new democrat? -- The alternative is not peace.
Call Number
JFE 07-6410
ISBN
  • 9780060723460
  • 0060723467
OCLC
123119408
Author
Hayes, Stephen F.
Title
Cheney : the untold story of America's most powerful and controversial vice president / Stephen F. Hayes.
Imprint
New York : HarperCollins, 2007.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 07-6410
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