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Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President Hardcover – July 24, 2007

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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. He was one of a few select advisers in the room when President Gerald Ford decided to declare an end to the Vietnam War. Nearly thirty years later, from the presidential bunker below the White House in the moments immediately following the attacks of September 11, 2001, he helped shape the response: America's global war on terror.

Yet for all of his influence, the world knows very little about Dick Cheney. The most powerful vice president in U.S. history has also been the most secretive and guarded of all public officials. "Am I the evil genius in the corner that nobody ever sees come out of his hole?" Cheney asked rhetorically in 2004. "It's a nice way to operate, actually."

Now, in Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President, New York Times bestselling author and Weekly Standard senior writer Stephen F. Hayes offers readers a groundbreaking view into the world of this most enigmatic man. Having had exclusive access to Cheney himself, 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 of one of the most important political figures in modern times.

The wide range of topics Hayes covers includes Cheney's withdrawal from Yale; his early run-ins with the law; the incident that almost got him blackballed from working in the Ford White House; his meteoric rise to congressional leadership; his opposition to removing Saddam Hussein from power after the first Gulf War; the solo, cross-country drive he took after leaving the Pentagon; his selection as Bush's running mate; his commanding performance on 9/11; the aggressive intelligence and interrogation measures he pushed in the aftermath of those attacks; the necessity of the Iraq War; the consequences of mistakes made during and after that war; and intelligence battles with the CIA and their lasting effects. With exhaustive reporting, Hayes shines a light into the shadows of the Bush administration and finds a very different Dick Cheney from the one America thinks it knows.

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July 24, 2007
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Before he became George W. Bush's running mate in the 2000 election, Hayes reports, Dick Cheney called the vice presidency a cruddy job. But during his tenure, Hayes argues, Cheney transformed this traditionally inconsequential office into a focal point of presidential power. While emphasizing Cheney's role as vice president, this biography follows his entire political career, beginning with a 1968 congressional fellowship and including key positions in the Ford and George H.W. Bush administrations, as well as 21 years as a congressman. Drawing on interviews with Cheney and others, as well as TV interviews and other journalistic reports, Hayes covers this material engagingly and efficiently. A reporter for the Weekly Standard and author of a previous book on the connection between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, Hayes approaches Cheney sympathetically, countering more critical accounts in the popular press—for example, he laments the way Ambassador Joseph Wilson's flawed storyline regarding forged evidence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Niger hardened into conventional wisdom. The book may not convince detractors, but it sketches a vivid portrait of Cheney as an intelligent, quiet leader committed throughout his career, even as a member of Congress, to strengthening the power and authority of the executive branch. (July 24)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

About the Author

Stephen F. Hayes is a senior writer for the Weekly Standard and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America. He has been a commentator on many television and radio broadcasts, including the Today show, Meet the Press, the Diane Rehm Show, Fox News Sunday, the O'Reilly Factor, and CNN's Late Edition. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Wall Street Journal, The National Review, and the New York Post. He lives on the Chesapeake Bay with his wife and two children.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins; 1st edition (July 24, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060723467
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060723460
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.08 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 2.62 x 9 inches

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Biased but still useful view of Dick Cheney

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2010

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Stephen Hayes writes a biography of Cheney from the view of the right with the most access to the vice president than anyother reporter has ever had. With that being said Cheney is still a very private man who shares little about his life. Hayes is very thorough and provides an excellent look at how Cheney got to where he was from Yale dropout to rising academic that chooses to go into public service in the Ford administration as a chief of staff working with Donald Rumsfeld. After going into elected office and serving as Secretary of Defense Cheney retired from public life to become a board member at Halliburton. What would become one of the most controversial parts of the Bush administration when the government would award no bid contracts to the company.

As with any political book bias is a huge concern. When it comes to Cheney's early years much of what is written matches up with other biographies on Reagan and Ford and really paints a picture of how those offices worked. His recounting of the 9/11 events also is in line with those reports by George Tennet, Richard Clarke and others. When it comes to the war in Iraq there is a lot of dancing around and I found this to be the least helpful part of the book since it seemed to contradict what others had written. Now the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle and I doubt we will ever know if this administration came in with the intent to go to war in Iraq. One thing this book makes very clear is the Bush cabinet was a product of Dick Cheney. He surrounded Bush with close friends like Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Rice and Powell.

As to the charge of Cheney being the puppet master it is hard to get a sense. Cheney was selected as VP because he had the experience in government that George Bush did not and he would use that experience to be an effective administrator. Given Cheney's already reluctant and private nature it created the appearance of a more sinister front than seems to be presented here. Overall it is a very interesting look at Cheney's life and worth the time to read.

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jbtheref

A Patriot Whose Been Proven Right

Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2015

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This is a book that not many people have talked about. Steve Hayes is one of today's best writers on all things political. It's an easy, objective read on one of the more polarizing figures in recent history. The reason why it's so polarizing is that the left continues to deny that in most cases Cheney's philosophy has proven to be correct.

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Phillipwh

I find that the US politics is so polarized and so much bad is written about those on the other side

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2016

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never was a fan of Cheney but the books worth reading. I find that the US politics is so polarized and so much bad is written about those on the other side. Survival and success in politics requires a distinct armory for which Cheney was well equipted - and thus extra hated by the other side

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2019

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The political life and times of Cheney are fascinating and very relevant to the political atmosphere in America today. Worth reading.

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Andrew

Good insight to the formers VPs whole career

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2019

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Thourougly enjoyed this book. Went in depth on his entire career. Gave it a 4 insread of a 5 because I felt it just glanced over the 2nd term

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The Definitive book on Richard B. Cheney

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2011

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It's rare today to read a book about how someone from humble origins can make it to such heights as Vice President of the US and I didn't think that this book would have a "motivational book" appeal but it did. Initially, this book was bought in order to help build a possible background viewpoint for his recent book of his memoirs called "In My Time" but, I literally could not put the book down.

This is the definitive book that opens up the vast tomb of the life and career of Dick Cheney; its packed with both the nuances of his life and family along with a touch of hardships and the challenges he faced at various times during his life. I won't delve into the details of how he worked hard to make it to the Vice Presidency - since the book covers them so well - but Mr. Cheney is literally a self-made American in a country that today seems to promote only the political insiders or those who are due "favors" via the accrued acquisition of political currency. Many people who read this will think that he was in fact a political insider from birth but this book begs to differ. The book shows how he climbed the political ladder himself by implying help from both Divine Providence and help from Lynne Cheney ("The Boss") as Dick would say.

Erudite, succinct, a man of few words but of tremendous action, a bookworm that always was reading and collecting facts to base his decisions on. A man of pure Wyoming character, dry sense of humor, and a family man that made the hard decision to put country before family, along with a heck of a knack to catch steel-head trout with a fly-rod, the book "Cheney" is a must read for anyone who needs to see what it takes to overcome tremendous hurtles but to stay humble and focused on the goal of protecting the homeland.

Never before had I read such a book that truly agrees with the statement - Richard Cheney, the presidential Vice President!

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