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English Pages (xix, 426 pages) : illustrations Year 2004

Rise of the Vulcans: the history of Bush's war cabinet
9781101100158, 9781101085301, 1101085304, 110110015X

Author / Uploaded
Bush
George Walker;James Mann

Table of contents :
A rising politician amid war and dirty tricks --
The intellectual as protégé --
A soldier and a sailor --
Combating the Soviets, Détente and Henry Kissinger --
Enter the Persian Gulf --
Transitions --
Camelot of the conservatives --
Of dictatorships and democracy --
In the midst of Armageddon --
A scandal and its aftermath --
A new republican president, a new foreign policy team --
Use of force --
Death of an empire, birth of a vision --
Vulcans in exile --
A vulcan agenda --
The campaign --
Who runs the Pentagon? --
Warnings and signals --
History starts today --
A new strategy --
Toward war with Iraq.

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