Ebook: Vice: Dick Cheney and the hijacking of the American presidency
Author: Cheney Richard B., Bernstein Jake, Dubose Lou
- Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical, HISTORY--United States--State & Local--General, Vice-Presidents--United States, Power (Social sciences)--United States, Power (Social sciences), Vice-Presidents, Politics and government, Biography, Biographies, Cheney Richard B, Vice-Presidents -- United States -- Biography, United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009, Power (Social sciences) -- United States, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical, HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General, United
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- City: New York;United States
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
Dick Cheney is the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in U.S. history. He has thrived alongside a president with little interest in policy and limited experience in the ways of Washington. Yet Cheney's quiet, steady rise to prominence over a span of three decades occurred largely behind the scenes. Now journalists Dubose and Bernstein reveal the disturbing truth about the man who has successfully co-opted executive control over the U.S. government, becoming the de facto "shadow president." Revelations include: the intimidation of CIA officials by a vice president bent on obtaining intelligence to support a foregone conclusion; Cheney's secret energy task force, including his meeting with Enron chief Ken Lay months before Lay was indicted; how Cheney helped to kill 2003 diplomatic overtures from Iran to discuss concessions on its nuclear program and policy toward Israel; Cheney's role in engineering multibillion-dollar military contracts in Iraq to benefit Halliburton, the company he once ran.--From publisher description.
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