Dick - The Man Who Is President

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Dick is part investigative history, part political critique, combining in-depth research into Cheney's background--in both government and the corporate world--with cutting criticism. Most Americans don't know that Cheney was a business partner of Enron, that his old corporation was saved from financial ruin by Bush administration defense contracts, that he has used his office to directly threaten critics of the administration. Nichols recounts Cheney's political career, beginning with his draft dodging, including his role in the Nixon administration, his involvement in some of the worst scandals of the Reagan era, and his extremist views, including lonely votes against the Martin Luther King holiday and for Nelson Mandela's imprisonment. Dick: The Man Who Is President draws on ground-breaking reporting--including exclusive interviews with Cheney, Mandela, Gore Vidal, members of Congress, and others who have tangled with Cheney and who are now investigating him.

John Nichols, The Nation's Washington correspondent, has covered progressive politics and activism in the United States and abroad for more than a decade. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C. Nichols is the author of two books: It's the Media, Stupid and Jews for Buchanan (The New Press, 2001).

"Instructive, offering a blow-by-blow brief on Cheney's rise to power." - Independent Weekly (Durham) "Makes a persuasive case . . . that the vice-presidency is the real locus of power in the current U.S. administration: Cheney runs the show." - London Review of Books