In this eagerly anticipated memoir, former Vice President Dick
Cheney delivers an unyielding portrait of American politics over
nearly forty years and shares personal reflections on his role as
one of the most steadfast and influential statesmen in the
history of our country.
The public perception of Dick Cheney has long been something of a
contradiction. He has been viewed as one of the most powerful
vice presidents-secretive, even mysterious, and at the same time
opinionated and unflinchingly outspoken. He has been both praised
and attacked by his peers, the press, and the public. Through it
all, courting only the ideals that define him, he has remained
true to himself, his principles, his family, and his country. Now
in an enlightening and provocative memoir, a stately page-turner
with flashes of surprising humor and remarkable candor, Dick
Cheney takes readers through his experiences as family man,
policymaker, businessman, and politician during years that shaped
our collective history.
Born into a family of New Deal Democrats in Lincoln, Nebraska,
Cheney was the son of a her at war and a high-spirited and
resilient mother. He came of age in Casper, Wyoming, playing
baseball and football and, as senior class president, courting
homecoming queen Lynne Vincent, whom he later married. This
all-American story took an abrupt turn when he flunked out of
Yale University, signed on to build power line in the West, and
started living as hard as he worked. Cheney tells the story of
how he got himself back on track and began an extraordinary
ascent to the heights of American public life, where he would
remain for nearly four decades:
* He was the youngest White House Chief of Staff, working for
President Gerald Ford--the first of four chief executives he
would come to know well.
* He became Congressman from Wyoming and was soon a member of
the congressional leadership working closely with President
Ronald Reagan.
* He became secretary of defense in the George H. W. Bush
administration, overseeing America's during Operation
Desert Storm and in the historic transition at the end of the
Cold War.
* He was CEO of Halliburton, a Fortune 500 company with projects
and personnel around the globe.
* He became the first vice president of the United States to
serve out his term of office in the twenty-first century. Working
with George W. Bush from the beginning of the global war on
terror, he was--and remains--an outspoken defender of taking
every step necessary to defend the nation.
Eyewitness to history at the highest levels, Cheney brings to
life scenes from past and present. He describes driving through
the White House gates on August 9, 1974, just hours after Richard
Nixon resigned, to begin work on the Ford transition; and he
portrays a time of national crisis a quarter century later when,
on September 11, 2001, he was in the White House bunker and
conveyed orders to shoot down a hijacked airliner if it would not
divert With its unique perspective on a remarkable span of
American history, In My Time will enlighten. As an and
personal chronicle, it will surprise, move, and inspire. Dick
Cheney's is an enduring political vision to be reckoned with and
admired for its honesty, its wisdom, and its resonance. In My
Time is truly the last word about an incredible political era, by
a man who lived it and helped define it--with courage and without
compromise.