New in the Hesston Public Library you will find In My Time, a contemporary history that is equal in suspense to many novels. I highly recommend it to you for your reading pleasure. All 531 pages will open your mind to forty years of one of the most steadfast and influential statesmen in the history of our country.
Taking this from the flyleaf: Cheney was born into a family of New Deal Democrats in Lincoln, Nebraska and came of age in Casper, Wyoming playing baseball and football. As senior class president, he courted Lynne Vincent, whom he later married. After flunking out of Yale University, he signed on to build power line in the west, living as hard as he worked. He does get himself back on track beginning an extraordinary ascent to the heights of American public life.
He served as White House Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford - the first of four chief executives he served. Later, he became Congressman from Wyoming, working closely with President Ronald Reagan. He became Secretary of Defense under the George H.W. Bush administration during Operation Desert Storm and in the transition at the end of the Cold War.
For the next five years he was CEO of Halliburton with projects and personnel around the globe. He then became the vice-president of the United States under President George W. Bush. On September 11 he was in the White House bunker, conveying orders to shoot down a hijacked airliner, if it would not divert. This is the story of a man who lived and helped define an incredibly political era with courage and without compromise.
He shares with us his relationship with Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Josh Bolton and many other high profile people in the political arena. He takes us on tour with him to visit Prime Minister Tony Blair, to Saudi Arabia with King Abdullah, to Palestine with leader Abu Mazen and to Rome for a meeting with Pope John Paul. He tells us of his meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and of his respect and admiration of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He describes his long time relationship with Donald Rumsfield.
You will not find another history book this exciting.
Taking this from the flyleaf: Cheney was born into a family of New Deal Democrats in Lincoln, Nebraska and came of age in Casper, Wyoming playing baseball and football. As senior class president, he courted Lynne Vincent, whom he later married. After flunking out of Yale University, he signed on to build power line in the west, living as hard as he worked. He does get himself back on track beginning an extraordinary ascent to the heights of American public life.
He served as White House Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford - the first of four chief executives he served. Later, he became Congressman from Wyoming, working closely with President Ronald Reagan. He became Secretary of Defense under the George H.W. Bush administration during Operation Desert Storm and in the transition at the end of the Cold War.
For the next five years he was CEO of Halliburton with projects and personnel around the globe. He then became the vice-president of the United States under President George W. Bush. On September 11 he was in the White House bunker, conveying orders to shoot down a hijacked airliner, if it would not divert. This is the story of a man who lived and helped define an incredibly political era with courage and without compromise.
He shares with us his relationship with Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Josh Bolton and many other high profile people in the political arena. He takes us on tour with him to visit Prime Minister Tony Blair, to Saudi Arabia with King Abdullah, to Palestine with leader Abu Mazen and to Rome for a meeting with Pope John Paul. He tells us of his meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and of his respect and admiration of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He describes his long time relationship with Donald Rumsfield.
You will not find another history book this exciting.
Reviewed by Bonnie Scheid
January, 2012
