Cheney One on One
A Candid Conversation with America's Most Controversial Statesman
Published on 19. November 2015
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-62157-462-0 (ISBN)
Description
In December 2014, a few weeks before his seventy-fourth birthday, former Vice President Dick Cheney invited Fox News reporter James Rosen into his northern Virginia home. Over three days, Rosen recorded ten hours of conversations with the man known as the "Darth Vader" of American politics. A small fraction of the interview was adapted into an April 2015 Playboy interview; but now, Rosen shares the whole, incredible conversation. With no topic off limits, the former vice president opened up about his complicated relationships with President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and talks candidly about why his influence in the White House waned over Bush's second term. Rosen also presses Cheney about his WWII-era childhood, his two DUI arrests and expulsion from Yale, his political coming-of-age during the Watergate era, his reflections on 9/11 and the Iraq War, his misgivings about Syria and North Korea, his role in the development of the CIA's "enhanced interrogation techniques" and the NSA's warrantless surveillance program, and his views on life, death, and God.
Cheney One on One is an essential document of modern America: a major oral history whose every page contains important and fascinating recollections of one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation's history, from one of its most powerful and controversial figures.
Cheney One on One is an essential document of modern America: a major oral history whose every page contains important and fascinating recollections of one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation's history, from one of its most powerful and controversial figures.
Reviews / Votes
"More than four turbulent decades at the epicenter of political life have made Dick Cheney one of the most consequential political figures in the nation's history. You will see important chapters of that history--including some that are still being writ- ten--differently after savoring this wonderfully conceived volume in which Cheney converses with one of Washington's most seasoned journalists." --GEORGE F. WILL, author, Pulitzer Prize--winning columnist, and Fox News commentator "Invaluable...James Rosen has given us a rare and compelling view of how Dick Cheney sees the world and himself. With searching questions and clear-eyed follow-ups, Rosen served as history's interlocutor in a series of revealing--and inevitably controversial--conversations." --JON MEACHAM, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush "An essential document of modern America... With the depth of a historian and the instincts of an investigative reporter, James Rosen adds considerably to our under- standing of Dick Cheney and the administrations in which he served... Offers crucial context and fresh reporting on many of the most controversial decisions of the Bush- Cheney years... A must-read." --STEPHEN F. HAYES, senior writer for the Weekly Standard and author of Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President "Indispensable... James Rosen has a knack for asking probing, unusual, and some- times uncomfortable questions... His skill as an interviewer is vividly on display in the hours he spent interrogating Dick Cheney." --JONATHAN KARL, chief White House correspondent for ABC News "Fascinating, revelatory, and valuable... A contribution to our current political dia- logue that will also serve as a basic source for the historians of the future." --MICHAEL BESCHLOSS, author of Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789--1989 "James Rosen skillfully lets Cheney be Cheney, bringing to life a third of a century on the front lines of history." --I. LEWIS LIBBY, former chief of staff to Vice President CheneyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
538 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62157-462-0 (9781621574620)
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11/2015
Regnery Publishing
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Person
James Rosen is a leading reporter, historian, and bestselling author. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, theWashington Post, Politico, The Atlantic, Harper's, National Review, and the American Bar Association Journal, among other periodicals. He is the chief White House correspondent for Newsmax, following two decades of acclaimed reporting at Fox News. During the Obama administration, Rosen's exclusive reporting on national security subjects led to his being placed under surveillance by the FBI and censored by the State Department, episodes that triggered headlines, investigations, and reforms. His previous books include The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate, hailed by the New York Times Magazine as "Pulitzer-quality biography," and Cheney One on One, a collection of transcripts from the ten-hour oral history Rosen conducted with former vice president Dick Cheney in 2014. His most recent book, A Torch Kept Lit: Great Lives of the Twentieth Century, an anthology of essays by the late William F. Buckley Jr., spent five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. With his wife, two sons, and two cats, he splits his time between Washington and the Chesapeake Bay.