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  The Dark Side

  The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals

  by Jane Mayer

  A dramatic and damning narrative account of how America has fought the "War on Terror" In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser... (more)
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  The One Percent Doctrine

  by Ron Suskind

  Relying on unique access to former and current government officials, this book will reveal for the first time how the U.S. government - from President Bush on down - is frantically improvising to fight a new kind of war. Where is the enemy? What have been the real victories and defeats since September 11? How are we actually fighting this war and how can it possibly be won? Little, in fact, has been revealed... (more)
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  The Accidental Guerrilla

  Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

  by David Kilcullen

  David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge." Now, in The Accidental Guerrilla , Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on Terror.... (more)
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  Tesla

  Man Out of Time

  by Margaret Cheney

  In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was, without a doubt, a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent.... (more)
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  Young Dick Cheney: Great American

  by Bruce Kluger, David Slavin

  A wickedly funny faux-children's biography recounts Young Dick Cheney’s youthful lust for guns, oil, and the girl of his dreams. He was born among the big skies and cow pies of the Great American West. And yet from these humble beginnings, he would grow to become the most famous, most powerful Dick ever to inhabit the Vice Presidency. In this often shocking, frequently touching, clearly unauthorized biography,... (more)
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  Cheney: A Revealing Portrait of America's Most Powerful Vice President

  by Stephen F. Hayes

  During a forty-year career in politics, Vice President Dick Cheney has been involved in some of the most consequential decisions in recent American history. He was one of a few select advisers in the room when President Gerald Ford decided to declare an end to the Vietnam War. Nearly thirty years later, from the presidential bunker below the White House in the moments immediately following the attacks of September... (more)
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  Taking Heat : The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House

  by Ari Fleischer

  For two and a half years, Ari Fleischer served as the official liaison between the White House and members of the press, acting as the primary spokesperson for President George W. Bush and delivering the daily White House briefing. In this riveting account, Fleischer goes behind-the-scenes as he recalls his experiences in the West Wing and offers an assessment of the leadership lessons he learned from America's... (more)
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  Working for KBR in Iraq: An Exercise of Frustration

  by Rick D. Cleland

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  Manic: A Memoir

  by Terri Cheney

  "I didn't tell anyone that I was going to Santa Fe to kill myself." On the outside, Terri Cheney was a highly successful, attractive Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer. But behind her seemingly flawless façade lay a dangerous secret—for the better part of her life Cheney had been battling debilitating bipolar disorder and concealing a pharmacy's worth of prescriptions meant to stabilize her moods and make... (more)
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  The reluctant spy : my secret life in the CIA's war on terror

  by John Kiriakou

  Long before the waterboarding controversy exploded in the media, one CIA agent had already gone public. In a groundbreaking 2007 interview with ABC News, John Kiriakou called waterboarding torture—but admitted that it probably worked. This book, at once a confessional, an adventure story, and a chronicle of Kiriakou’s life in the CIA, stands as an important, eloquent piece of testimony from a committed American... (more)
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  AmericA, Inc.: A Stage Play (Volume 1)

  by David B. Lentz

  In this rich, dark comedy the USA has evolved in 2020 into a global corporate nation or "corpornation." Sub-divided by a great, brick wall into the northern Bluefish and southern Redfish States, AmericA, Inc. is run by Travis Bash, President + CEO. Perpetually at war, its Supreme Court disbanded, riddled by lobbyists and voracious for capital, Bash drafts Bob, a destitute Yale poet, to transform America,... (more)
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  In My Time

  A Personal and Political Memoir

  by Dick Cheney

  The much-anticipated memoir from the former Vice President of the United States.