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The History of Bush's War Cabinet
Penguin
November 2004
426 pages
ISBN: 0143034898
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Non-Fiction
When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was
such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn’t name the
president of Pakistan. But he was advised by a group that
called themselves the Vulcans—a group of men and one woman
with long and shared experience in government, dating back
to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and first Bush administrations.
After returning to power in 2001, the Vulcans—including
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz,
Richard Armitage, and Condoleeza Rice—were widely expected
to restore U.S. foreign policy to what it had been in past
Republican administrations. Instead, they put America on an
entirely new course, adopting a far-reaching set of ideas
and policies that changed the world and America’s role in
it. In this revelatory and newsworthy volume, James Mann
narrates the hidden story of these six history makers,
their early careers and rise to power, the interactions and
underlying tensions among them, their visions, and their
roles in the current administration. Along the way, he
offers a wealth of new information (about how Rumsfeld
schemed in the Nixon White House, how Cheney toiled as
Rumsfeld’s doorkeeper, how Wolfowitz first warned of
nuclear proliferation in the Middle East in the 1960s) to
complete a remarkable look at George W. Bush’s inner circle.
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