Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

Peter Baker, senior White House correspondent for the New York Times, crafts a gripping and intimate narrative that recounts the drama and controversy of the Bush and Cheney administration. Peter Baker chronicles the history of the George W. Bush presidency through the two principal players: a bold, untested president and his seasoned, relentless vice president. Confronted by one crisis after another, they struggled to protect the country and remake the world, while their partnership was constantly evolving. 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, theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with key players and thousands of pages of never-released notes, memos and other internal documents, Baker brings to life with in-the-room immediacy all the drama of an era marked by devastating terrorist attacks, the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina and financial collapse.

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