5/24/2023 0 Comments Days of fire by peter baker![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This briskly written but exhaustively detailed account defies expectations by portraying an administration of intelligent, patriotic adults with necessarily limited information striving to do what they believed was best for the nation in a dangerous era, with real but overlooked achievements. Baker concludes that Bush "was at his best when he was cleaning up his worst." The author shows how it all went wrong, however, without a hint of partisan rancor. Written as though it has the perspective of a century's distance on the events of the last decade, New York Times senior White House correspondent Baker ( The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton, 2000, etc.) dispatches false and puerile memes-Bush stole Florida, blood for oil, Bush lied and kids died, etc.-to the dustbin of history as he delivers "the most documented history of the Bush-Cheney White House to date." The author is no Bush cheerleader he shines a pitiless light on the failures of judgment, erroneous intelligence and excessive reliance on subordinates that led to the debacle in Iraq, which undid Bush's second term. A thorough, objective and surprisingly positive examination of the Bush-Cheney years. ![]()
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