Cheney : the untold story of America's most powerful and controversial vice president / Stephen F. Hayes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayes, Stephen F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cheney, Richard B.

Vice-presidents--United States--Biography.

Vice-presidents.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 578 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : HarperCollins, 2007.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780060723460

0060723467

OCLC:

123119408