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Sto caricando le informazioni... Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidencydi Lou Dubose, Jake Bernstein
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The irony is that the faults that the authors attribute to Cheney (and which the reader might recoil in horror from) would probably be points of pride to Cheney himself. As he might have said: 'Did I amass a fortune at the expense of other people? Yes, because that's the natural order of things. Did I subvert the Government of the United States? It had been subverted by liberals, I simply put things back in place. Did this cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people? Sure, but they don't count, people die all the time anyway. Get over it and stop bleating.' Students of ancient Rome might recognize a few characters here...' ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Dick Cheney is the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in American history. He has thrived alongside a president who, from day one, had little interest in policy and limited experience in the ways of Washington. Yet Cheney's relentless rise to prominence over three decades has happened almost by stealth. Now veteran reporters Lou Dubose and Jake Bernstein reveal the disturbing truth about the man who has successfully co-opted executive control over the U.S. government, serving as the de facto 'shadow president' of the most dominant White House in a generation. Cheney has always been an astute politician. He survived the collapse of the Nixon presidency, finding a position of power in the administration of Gerald Ford. He was then elected to the House of Representatives and later served in the cabinet of the first Bush presidency. But when he became George W. Bush's running mate, Cheney reached a new level of influence. From the engineering of his own selection as vice president to his support of policies allowing torture as a permissible weapon in the 'war on terror', Cheney has consistently steered America to the right. With unique access to numerous first-hand sources, Vice provides an unprecedented expose of Cheney's career. Its startling revelations concern the war in Iraq, his relationship with the CIA and with big business, his involvement with Enron, his attitude towards Iran and his ruthless manoeuvering which today effectively puts him in charge of American policy at home and abroad. In the tradition of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's All the President's Men, this powerful work of investigative journalism takes us behind the scenes in Washington, into hitherto secret meetings and deep into the heart of political decision-making. Utterly gripping, Vice chronicles and exposes the hijacking of the American presidency and illustrates the arrogance of power as never before. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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