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Days of Fire Bush and Cheney in the White House

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ISBN-10: 0385525184

ISBN-13: 9780385525183

Edition: N/A

Authors: Peter Baker

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From the senior White House correspondent for The New York Times comes the definitive history of the Bush and Cheney White House—a tour de force narrative of those dramatic and controversial eight years.Taking readers into the offices of the West Wing and the cabins of Air Force One, Peter Baker tells the gripping inside story of the Bush and Cheney era. Theirs was the most fascinating American partnership since Nixon and Kissinger, an untested president and his seasoned vice president confronted by one crisis after another as they struggled to protect the country, remake the world, and define their own relationship along the way. Packed with revealing anecdotes and told with in-the-room…    
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Book details

List price: $40.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/22/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 816
Size: 6.40" wide x 9.54" long x 1.62" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English

Peter Baker is an American political writer and newspaper reporter who is currently White House correspondent for New York Times and a contributing writer for the The New York Times Magazine. He is responsible for covering President Obama and his administration. Prior to joining The New York Times (NYT) in 2008, Baker was a reporter for 20 years at The Washington Post, where he also covered the White House during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Baker co-authored the original story breaking the Lewinsky scandal during Clinton's presidency and served as the paper�s lead writer during the subsequent impeachment battle. During Bush�s second term, Baker covered the Iraq…    

Prologue: "Breaking china"
"One of you could be president"
"To be where the action is"
"The fire horse and the bell"
"We wrapped Bill Clinton around his neck"
"I'm going to call Dick"
"Iron filings moving across a tabletop"
"Somebody's going to pay"
"Whatever it takes"
"The first battle of the war"
"We're going to lose our prey"
"Afghanistan was too easy"
"A brutal, ugly, repugnant man"
"You could hear the lunge of history turn"
"Maybe we'll get lucky"
"Mr. President, I think we've got a problem"
"Welcome to Free Iraq"
"We were almost all wrong"
"When are we going to fire somebody?"
"The election that will never end"
"Not a speech Dick Cheney would give"
"Who do they think they are? I was reelected too"
"Whacked upside the head"
"This is the end of the presidency"
"You could have heard a pin drop"
"Please do not let anything happen today"
"I'm not sure how to take good news anymore"
"Make damn sure we do not fail"
"Don't let this be your legacy"
"The elephants finally threw up on the table"
"Everybody knew this was the last bullet in the chamber"
"I'm going to fire all your asses"
"Revolt of the radical pragmatists"
"Don't screw with the president of the United States"
"What is tins, a cruel hoax?"
"Our people are going to hate us for this"
"I didn't want to be the president during a depression"
"Such a sense of betrayal"
Epilogue: "There is no middle ground"
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits