Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet

A detailed, incisive thirty-five-year history of the top six members of an inner circle of government advisors-Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, and Condoleezza Rice-and the era of American dominance they represent.

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 g...