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Oral History Review 2008 35(1):104-105; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohn006
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Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President

Donald A. Ritchie

Senate Historical Office

CHENEY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA’S MOST POWERFUL AND CONTROVERSIAL VICE PRESIDENT. By Stephen F. Hayes. New York: Harper Collins, 2007. 1578 pp. Hardbound, $27.95.

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Politicians with presidential ambitions will often solicit a sympathetic journalist to write a flattering biography as a preliminary for the campaign. Authorized biographies tell the life story from the politicians’ perspective, highlighting their assets, ignoring their defects, and blaming their opponents. Usually based on interviews, they appear either as first person "as told to" autobiographies or as third-person narratives in which the biographer paraphrases and supplements material gleaned from the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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