Whomever the anonymous New Yorker reviewer assigned to Dick Cheney's memoir was, I applaud you. Your utter savaging of this book deserves to be the new standard for economical takedowns. I will now excerpt fully half of the review:
Cheney's unreliability as a narrator is pronounced: if one believes his account of having to get a timorous General Colin Powell to be aggressive in the first Gulf War, his support for Powell's appointment as Secretary of State seems bizarre. The yardstick he most often uses for the characters of Presidents and congressmen is how carefully they listen to him. He also measures how comfortable they are with waterboarding.
Apologies for the lack of a link, but the New Yorker's website is a train wreck.
Spencer here is the link, but it's behind a paywall.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2011/09/19/110919crbn_brieflynoted1
Posted by: Martin Cobern | 09/13/2011 at 01:07 PM
No way to read the link with out an account?
Posted by: fire blanket | 09/15/2011 at 03:14 AM