Rise of the Vulcans : the history of Bush's war cabinet /
Mann, Jim, 1946-
Rise of the Vulcans : the history of Bush's war cabinet / James Mann. - xix, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-410) and index.
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.
"When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the Taliban was a rock-and-roll band." "But he relied upon a group called the Vulcans - an inner circle of advisers with a long, shared experience in government, dating back to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and first Bush administrations." "After returning to power in 2001, the Vulcans were widely expected to restore U.S. foreign policy to what it had been under George H. W. Bush and previous Republican administrations. Instead, the Vulcans put America on an entirely new and different course, adopting a far-reaching set of ideas that changed the world and America's role in it." "Rise of the Vulcans is nothing less than a detailed, incisive thirty-five-year history of the top six members of the Vulcans - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, and Condoleezza Rice - and the era of American dominance they represent. It is the story of the lives, ideas and careers of Bush's war cabinet - the group of Washington insiders who took charge of America's response to September 11 and led the nation into its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."--BOOK JACKET.
0670032999 9780670032990
2003065765
Bush, George W. 1946- --Friends and associates.
Cabinet officers--United States--Biography
Presidents--Staff--United States--Biography
Political consultants--United States--Biography
United States--Foreign relations--2001-
United States--Military policy
United States--Politics and government--2001-
E902 / .M345 2004
327.7300922
Rise of the Vulcans : the history of Bush's war cabinet / James Mann. - xix, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-410) and index.
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.
"When George W. Bush campaigned for the White House, he was such a novice in foreign policy that he couldn't name the president of Pakistan and momentarily suggested he thought the Taliban was a rock-and-roll band." "But he relied upon a group called the Vulcans - an inner circle of advisers with a long, shared experience in government, dating back to the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and first Bush administrations." "After returning to power in 2001, the Vulcans were widely expected to restore U.S. foreign policy to what it had been under George H. W. Bush and previous Republican administrations. Instead, the Vulcans put America on an entirely new and different course, adopting a far-reaching set of ideas that changed the world and America's role in it." "Rise of the Vulcans is nothing less than a detailed, incisive thirty-five-year history of the top six members of the Vulcans - Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, and Condoleezza Rice - and the era of American dominance they represent. It is the story of the lives, ideas and careers of Bush's war cabinet - the group of Washington insiders who took charge of America's response to September 11 and led the nation into its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq."--BOOK JACKET.
0670032999 9780670032990
2003065765
Bush, George W. 1946- --Friends and associates.
Cabinet officers--United States--Biography
Presidents--Staff--United States--Biography
Political consultants--United States--Biography
United States--Foreign relations--2001-
United States--Military policy
United States--Politics and government--2001-
E902 / .M345 2004
327.7300922