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In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency.Theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a bold and untested president and his seasoned, relentless vice president. Confronted by one crisis after another, they struggled to protect the country, remake the world, and define their own relationship along the way. In Days of Fire, Peter Baker chronicles the history of the most consequential presidency in modern times through the prism of its two most compelling characters, capturing the elusive and shifting alliance of George Walker Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney as no historian has done before.
About the Author
Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for the New York Times responsible for covering President Trump and his administration and a political analyst for MSNBC. He has previously covered three other presidents for the Times and Washington Post -- Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. He is the author of six books, including "The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton" and "Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House." With his wife, Susan B. Glasser of the New Yorker, he is the author of "The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III," released in September by Doubleday.
