Days of Fire ; Bush and Cheney in the White House
Doug Mills (Author photograph) and Jack Chiasson ( New York: Doubleday, 2013. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, [2], 802 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. In October 2013, he published his third book, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, a detailed narrative account of the two-term presidency of George W. Bush.[13] It was listed as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review. Peter Eleftherios Baker (born July 2, 1967) is an American journalist and author. He was a reporter for The Washington Post for 20 years. He has covered five presidencies, from Bill Clinton through Joe Biden. He is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. While serving as White House correspondent for The Washington Post, he won the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency in 2007 for his "exceptionally trenchant appraisal" of the achievements and shortfalls of the second year of George W. Bush's second term in office. In 2008, after 20 years with The Washington Post, Baker began working for The New York Times. He received the 2011 Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for his "remarkable run" of detailed coverage of the second year of President Obama's first term. Baker again won the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency and the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award in 2015. In June 2017, he published his fourth book, Obama: The Call of History through New York Times/Callaway, a coffeetable book about Obama's two terms in office. In November 2017, it was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency. Theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a bold and untested president and his seasoned, relentless vice president. Confronted by one crisis after another, they struggled to protect the country, remake the world, and define their own relationship along the way. In Days of Fire, Peter Baker chronicles the history of the most consequential presidency in modern times through the prism of its two most compelling characters, capturing the elusive and shifting alliance of George Walker Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney as no historian has done before. He brings to life with in-the-room immediacy all the drama of an era marked by devastating terror attacks, the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, and financial collapse. The real story of Bush and Cheney is a far more fascinating tale than the familiar suspicion that Cheney was the power behind the throne. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with key players, and thousands of pages of never-released notes, memos, and other internal documents, Baker paints a riveting portrait of a partnership that evolved dramatically over time, from the early days when Bush leaned on Cheney, making him the most influential vice president in history, to their final hours, when the two had grown so far apart they were clashing in the West Wing. Together and separately, they were tested as no other president and vice president have been, first on a bright September morning, an unforgettable day of fire just months into the presidency, and on countless days of fire over the course of eight tumultuous years. Days of Fire is a monumental and definitive work that will rank with the best of presidential histories. As absorbing as a thriller, it is eye-opening and essential reading. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Dick Cheney, President, White House, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Josh Bolton, Camp David, Andy Card, Stephen Hadley, Iraq War, Scooter Libby, Nuclear Weapons, Karl Rove, Colin Powell, Condeleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, September 11th, George Tenet, Terror
ISBN: 9780385525183
[Book #89139]
Price: $55.00