David Frum reviews Days of Fire noting how complicated a book on George W. Bush’s presidency might be: “The Bush administration opened with a second Pearl Harbor, ended with a second Great Crash and contained a second Vietnam in the middle.”
“The story of those eight years would seem far too vast to contain inside a single volume. Yet here that volume is.”
“Baker’s book is informed by remarkable access to its main characters, including Vice President Dick Cheney… Yet Days of Fire is something more than the reporter’s ‘first rough draft of history.’ Almost every leading figure in the Bush White House, including Bush and Cheney, has now published his or her version of events, and Baker has painstakingly worked through them all. The result is what you might call a polished second draft of history, most likely the most polished draft we’ll have until the archives are opened and the academics can get to work.
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