Cheney

"You can't fully understand the Bush presidency without understanding Dick Cheney, and you can't understand Dick Cheney without reading this book." --Rush Limbaugh During his 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 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. Now, in Cheney, New York Times bestselling author Stephen F. Hayes offers listeners 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; his meteoric rise to congressional leadership; 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. 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. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post. He lives on the Chesapeake Bay. Alan Sklar has been nominated multiple times as a finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Awards. He has narrated over 100 audiobooks, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower and Earphones Award winner The Ghost Map.