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Bush and Cheney in the White House
Doubleday
November 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
816 pages ISBN: 0385525184 EAN: 9780385525183 Kindle: B00CK8CJVS Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
In Days of Fire, Peter
Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The
New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate
journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney
administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic
and controversial presidency. Theirs was the most captivating American political
partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a bold
and untested president and his seasoned, relentless vice
president. Confronted by one crisis after another, they
struggled to protect the country, remake the world, and
define their own relationship along the way. In Days of
Fire, Peter Baker chronicles the history of the most
consequential presidency in modern times through the prism
of its two most compelling characters, capturing the elusive
and shifting alliance of George Walker Bush and Richard
Bruce Cheney as no historian has done before. He brings to
life with in-the-room immediacy all the drama of an era
marked by devastating terror attacks, the Iraq War,
Hurricane Katrina, and financial collapse. The real story of Bush and Cheney is a far more fascinating
tale than the familiar suspicion that Cheney was the power
behind the throne. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with
key players, and thousands of pages of never-released notes,
memos, and other internal documents, Baker paints a riveting
portrait of a partnership that evolved dramatically over
time, from the early days when Bush leaned on Cheney, making
him the most influential vice president in history, to their
final hours, when the two had grown so far apart they were
clashing in the West Wing. Together and separately, they
were tested as no other president and vice president have
been, first on a bright September morning, an unforgettable
"day of fire" just months into the presidency, and on
countless days of fire over the course of eight tumultuous
years. Days of Fire is a monumental and definitive work that
will rank with the best of presidential histories. As
absorbing as a thriller, it is eye-opening and essential reading
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