Days of Hearth: Bush and Cheney within the White Home

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Theirs was probably the most charming American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a daring and untested president and his seasoned, relentless vice chairman. Confronted by one disaster after one other, they struggled to guard the nation, remake the world, and outline their very own relationship alongside the way in which.

The actual story of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney is way extra fascinating than the acquainted suspicion that Cheney was the facility behind the throne. Drawing on tons of of interviews with key gamers, and hundreds of pages of personal notes, memos, and different inside paperwork, Baker paints a riveting portrait of a partnership that developed dramatically over time, throughout an period marked by devastating terror assaults, the Iraq Conflict, Hurricane Katrina, and monetary collapse. Peter Baker has produced a monumental and definitive work that ranks with the perfect of presidential histories.