- Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: Threshold Editions; Reprint edition (15 May 2012)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1439176221
- ISBN-13: 978-1439176221
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 14.6 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Dick Cheney is going to go down as the Vice-President who wielded power well beyond that normally associated with the office of Vice President and he's certainly going to be after Bush and Blair the person most associated with the War on Terror. Whether you like or hate the guy I would certainly recommend you read his biography for no other reason than he was in the thick of it for several key points of history in the last forty years including
1)Chief of Staff to Gerald Ford after Watergate
2)Secretary of State during the first Gulf War
and of course
3)Vice President during 9/11 and the aftermath.
Unlike Blair in his appalling autobiography Cheney is no apologist for his actions he has no doubt he was justified and whether you agree or not is up to you. What he does do though is tell events as he lived them as he saw them, it's difficult to belive even if he had hindsight available to him he would have changed very much.
I would strongly recommend this book its a good piece of modern history from a key player.
1)Chief of Staff to Gerald Ford after Watergate
2)Secretary of State during the first Gulf War
and of course
3)Vice President during 9/11 and the aftermath.
Unlike Blair in his appalling autobiography Cheney is no apologist for his actions he has no doubt he was justified and whether you agree or not is up to you. What he does do though is tell events as he lived them as he saw them, it's difficult to belive even if he had hindsight available to him he would have changed very much.
I would strongly recommend this book its a good piece of modern history from a key player.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a sort of biography, just like Donald Rumsfeld's Known and Unknown, and George W. Bush's Decision Points. I call it a "sort of" biography because while Cheney's book covers his whole life, a good chunk (the last half maybe) covers the 8 years he was Vice-President (just like Rumsfeld's book). That sort of skew doesn't entitle the to be called book to be called a "full biography" (at least in my opinion).
Being honest I think that most people are willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, if you're willing to admit your mistakes. Whatever you think of Rumsfeld, he would make those admissions. Consequently I've got time for the guy. he wasn't my favorite politician before I read his book. He wasn't after. But I respect him because he was willing to say "Well we were wrong about.... because..." Cheney's book is the polar opposite to that. He only grudgingly admits mistakes were made at all (by the whole administration, never by him -another way he's different from Rumsfeld), makes no apologies for them, and lashes out at those who criticize him most obviously.
This book is good because it gives you a sense of Cheney the man, and why he made the decisions he made. If you want anything beyond the most basic acceptance that any decisions he made were wrong, don't bother reading this book, you won't get them.
In fact I'm going to go back to my review of Rumsfeld's book and raise the rating I gave it to 4 stars. This book has made me realise how much better that book is.
Being honest I think that most people are willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, if you're willing to admit your mistakes. Whatever you think of Rumsfeld, he would make those admissions. Consequently I've got time for the guy. he wasn't my favorite politician before I read his book. He wasn't after. But I respect him because he was willing to say "Well we were wrong about.... because..." Cheney's book is the polar opposite to that. He only grudgingly admits mistakes were made at all (by the whole administration, never by him -another way he's different from Rumsfeld), makes no apologies for them, and lashes out at those who criticize him most obviously.
This book is good because it gives you a sense of Cheney the man, and why he made the decisions he made. If you want anything beyond the most basic acceptance that any decisions he made were wrong, don't bother reading this book, you won't get them.
In fact I'm going to go back to my review of Rumsfeld's book and raise the rating I gave it to 4 stars. This book has made me realise how much better that book is.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This fabulous book moves along at a pace, yet never stints when it comes to detail. "In My Time" argues powerfully for the importance of Bush Doctrine, in respect of terrorists and those who harbor and assist them. This British Conservative is left with the overwhelming feeling that much was achieved by the Administration to make the States safer following 9/11. Having also read the President's book Decision Points, and Known and Unknown by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, it seems to me that the Vice President was on the right side of most debates, when it somes to defense and foreign policy. This is a great book by a great VP!
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