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The great rift : Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the broken friendship that defined an era

Title

The great rift : Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the broken friendship that defined an era / James Mann.

Author

Mann, Jim, 1946-

Publication

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
©2020

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Description

x, 416 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"A sweeping history of the intertwined careers of Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, whose rivalry and conflicting views of U.S. national security color our political debate to this day. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell emerged on the national scene more than thirty years ago, and it is easy to forget that they were once allies. It was Cheney who pressed for Powell's appointment as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, over the initial skepticism of the White House. And the two men collaborated closely in the successful American wars in Panama and Iraq during the George H. W. Bush administration, riding together in joyous victory parades. But from that pinnacle, conflicts of ideology and sensibility drove Cheney and Powell apart. Under George W. Bush, they fell into ever-deepening conflict. Cheney personified the idea that America should use its unrivaled power to reorder the world, using military force and ignoring objections from its longstanding allies. Powell believed that the United States should operate through diplomacy as much as possible, relying on the alliances it had forged. In this wide-ranging and deeply researched reassessment of these two major figures, James Mann explores each man's biography and philosophical predispositions to show how and why this deep and permanent rupture occurred. Through dozens of original interviews and surprising revelations from presidential archives, he brings to life the very human story of how this influential friendship turned so sour and how their enmity colored the way America acts in the world."--

Alternative Title

Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the broken friendship that defined an era

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part One INDISPENSABLE -- Useful Young Men -- The Quiet Conservative -- Climbing the Ladder -- "Your Buddy, Colin" -- Part Two FORTY-ONE -- Appointments -- The First Invasion -- A Much Bigger War -- Deciding Not to Go to Baghdad -- The Soviet Collapse -- Cheney's Blueprint -- Departures -- Part Three INTERREGNUM -- On the Outside -- The Returns -- Part Four FORTY-THREE -- From the Very Start -- September 11 and Its Aftermath -- The Two Tribes -- The Nondecision -- The Road to Baghdad -- Chaos -- Part Five DISPENSABLE -- Isolation -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 20-4513

ISBN

9781627797559
1627797556
9781627797566 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019038052

OCLC

1099195763

Author

Mann, Jim, 1946- author.

Title

The great rift : Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the broken friendship that defined an era / James Mann.

Publisher

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1989

Other Form:

Online version: Mann, James, The great rift First edition. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. 9781627797566 (DLC) 2019038053

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4513

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