出版社: Random House Audio Publishing Group
出版年: 2013-10
定价: $ 50.85
ISBN: 9780385362344
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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 th...
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 immediacy, Days of Fire narrates two profoundly significant and conflicted terms marked by 9/11, Iraq, Katrina, jihad, nuclear proliferation, genocide, and economic collapse.
George W. Bush was one of the most polarizing presidents of our time, jettisoning decades of foreign policy pragmatism to redefine America's mission as a crusade to bring freedom to the world. Yet his early dream of transforming Republicans into the party of "compassionate conservatism" and building an "ownership society" were dashed by two consuming wars and a devastating financial crash. At his side was Dick Cheney, the trusted adviser who became the most influential vice president in history only to watch as Bush drifted away, leaving the two at odds over a wide array of fundamental issues. Baker's interviews with more than two hundred players—White House aides, cabinet secretaries, generals, senators and congressmen, relatives and friends of both men—help reveal the truth of their complicated and shifting relationship.
Days of Fire is the first book to capture in a truly defining way all eight years of the most consequential presidency in a generation. It is an essential history and thrilling reading.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
彼得·贝克(Peter Baker)
小布什时代白宫现场见证人
深谙华府政治内幕的金牌记者
★《纽约时报》驻白宫首席记者
★ 美国公共广播公司知名时政评论员
★ 超级畅销书作家
彼得·贝克长期为《纽约时报》报导与白宫相关的新闻,深谙白宫和国会的政治运作。他也是超级畅销书作家,著有《弹劾与审判克林顿内幕》《普京的俄罗斯》等作品,其作品皆以采访众多核心人物、研究海量政府机密档案、具备庞大的信息量为基础。
《交火的日子》为其最新著作,一经问世便受到广泛关注,《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》等主流媒体纷纷将其评为年度优秀读物,更被美国各界公认为研究布什执政时期的权威参考作品。
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