Taking Heat
The President, The Press, and My Years in the White House
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For two and a half years, Ari Fleischer served as the official liaison between the White House and members of the press, acting as the voice of President George W. Bush.
In Taking Heat, Fleischer goes behind the scenes in the West Wing, giving his perspectives on:
- September 11, 2001, its aftermath, and the anthrax scare
- The pressure-filled buildup to the war in Iraq and the President's thoughts as the war began
- The White House press corps, who they are, and how they report the news
Fleischer believes that the press has a bias in Washington. It's not a question of partisanship or press driven ideology. It's a focus on conflict they can attach to the President. The White House press corps are masters of the devil's advocate. Fleischer's job was to calmly field their questions, no matter how pointed. He calls the press a tough, sharp, skeptical group. They call him tight-lipped and secretive. But at the end of the day, they had a bond.
Taking Heat is an introspective and analytical exploration of the major political events in the first half of the Bush administration, as well as the candid observations of a professional who stood in the bright lights of the world stage.
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A balanced account of the W and Cheney White House
- De Scott en 11-15-13
De: Peter Baker
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Reagan
- The Life
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 31 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the 20th century. Reagan took office at a time when the public sector, after a half century of New Deal liberalism, was widely perceived as bloated and inefficient, an impediment to personal liberty.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very little about Reagan
- De Jack Merritt en 07-30-15
De: H. W. Brands
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In My Time
- A Personal and Political Memoir
- De: Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann, Dick Cheney
- Duración: 20 h
- Versión completa
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In his unmistakable voice and with an insider's eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power. 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book
- De reader en 09-05-11
De: Dick Cheney, y otros
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Tip and the Gipper
- When Politics Worked
- De: Chris Matthews
- Narrado por: Chris Matthews
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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They were the political odd couple - the two most powerful men in the country, a pair who "couldn't be more different or more the same." For six years, Matthews was on the inside, watching the evolving relationship between President Reagan and Speaker of the House O’Neill. Drawing not only on his own remarkable knowledge but on extensive interviews with those closest to his subjects, Matthews brings this unlikely friendship to life in his unique voice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't want it to end
- De Jim en 10-06-13
De: Chris Matthews
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The Gatekeepers
- How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency
- De: Chris Whipple
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,364
The chiefs of staff, often referred to as "the gatekeepers", wield tremendous power in Washington and beyond; they decide who is allowed to see the president, negotiate with Congress to push POTUS's agenda, and - most crucially - enjoy unparalleled access to the leader of the free world. Through extensive, intimate interviews with 18 living chiefs (including Reince Priebus) and two former presidents, award-winning journalist and producer Chris Whipple pulls back the curtain on this unique fraternity. In doing so, he revises our understanding of presidential history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but lacking in political objectivity
- De Stephen Watson en 09-04-17
De: Chris Whipple
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LBJ's 1968
- Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
- De: Kyle Longley
- Narrado por: Paul Brion
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kyle Longley leads his listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'. Longley explores how LBJ perceived the most significant events of 1968, including the Vietnam War, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, and the violent Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Worst year in my lifetime - LBJ tragedy of his own making - but not according to this Author.
- De charles wartelle en 05-17-19
De: Kyle Longley
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The Briefing
- Politics, the Press, and the President
- De: Sean Spicer
- Narrado por: Sean Spicer
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 226
For more than two decades, Sean Spicer had been a respected political insider, working as a campaign and communications strategist. But in December 2016, he got the call of a lifetime. President-elect Donald J. Trump had chosen him to be the White House press secretary. And life hasn’t been the same since. When he accepted the job, Spicer was far from a household name. But then he walked into the bright lights of the briefing room, and the cameras started rolling. His every word was scrutinized. Every movement was parodied. Every detail became a meme. And that’s just the public side.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I did not expect to like this non-fiction book!
- De Wayne en 07-30-18
De: Sean Spicer
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The Presidents Club
- Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
- De: Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 22 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,449
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,257
The Presidents Club was born at Eisenhower’s inauguration when Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover first conceived the idea. Over the years that followed - and to this day - the presidents relied on, misunderstood, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world’s most exclusive fraternity is a complicated place: its members are bound forever because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secrets, yet they are immortal rivals for history’s favor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Engaging subject, but fact-checking needed
- De loix en 04-25-12
De: Nancy Gibbs, y otros
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Bush
- De: Jean Edward Smith
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 25 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 222
In Bush, Jean Edward Smith demonstrates that it was not Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, or Condoleezza Rice, but President Bush himself who took personal control of foreign policy. Bush drew on his deep religious conviction that important foreign-policy decisions were simply a matter of good versus evil. Domestically, he overreacted to 9/11 and endangered Americans' civil liberties.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delusions of Competence
- De Rick en 11-18-16
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All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class
- De: Tim Shipman
- Narrado por: Rupert Farley
- Duración: 32 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Based on unrivalled access to all the key politicians and their advisors - including Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, George Osborne, Nigel Farage and Dominic Cummings, the mastermind of Vote Leave - Shipman has written a political history that reads like a thriller and offers a gripping day-by-day account of what really happened behind the scenes in Downing Street, both Leave campaigns, the Labour Party, Ukip and Britain Stronger in Europe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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blow by blow, word by word
- De Christian R. Unger en 11-22-18
De: Tim Shipman
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The Promise
- President Obama, Year One
- De: Jonathan Alter
- Narrado por: Jonathan Alter
- Duración: 20 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 189
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Barack Obama’s inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of “Change We Can Believe In” was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system of business as usual in Washington. Despite all the coverage, the backstory of Obama’s historic first year in office has until now remained a mystery.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Tiresome
- De Matthew en 05-21-10
De: Jonathan Alter
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The Kennedy Half Century
- The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy
- De: Larry J. Sabato
- Narrado por: Chris Kayser
- Duración: 24 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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John F. Kennedy died half a century ago - yet because of his extraordinary promise and untimely death, his star still resonates strongly. On the anniversary of his assassination, celebrated political scientist and analyst Larry J. Sabato - himself a teenager in the early 1960s and inspired by JFK and his presidency - explores the fascinating and powerful influence he has had over five decades on the media, the general public, and especially on each of his nine presidential successors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Job Well Done
- De Kathy en 08-12-14
De: Larry J. Sabato
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State of Denial
- Bush at War, Part III
- De: Bob Woodward
- Narrado por: Boyd Gaines
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
- Versión resumida
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Bob Woodward examines how the Bush administration avoided telling the truth about Iraq to the public, to the Congress, and often to themselves in State of Denial. Woodward's third book on President Bush is a sweeping narrative from the first days George W. Bush thought seriously about running for president, through the recruitment of his national security team, the war in Afghanistan, the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the struggle for political survival in the second term.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Concerning and hard to put down
- De Chris en 12-10-06
De: Bob Woodward
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Nixon's White House Wars
- The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever
- De: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 17 h y 34 m
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From Vietnam to the Southern Strategy, from the opening of China to the scandal of Watergate, Pat Buchanan - speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon - tells the untold story of Nixon's embattled White House, from its historic wins to it devastating defeats. In his inaugural address, Nixon held out a hand in friendship to Republicans and Democrats alike. But by the fall of 1969, massive demonstrations in Washington and around the country had been mounted to break his presidency.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- De Jean en 06-15-17
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The Truth (with Jokes)
- De: Al Franken
- Narrado por: Al Franken
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 283
Al Franken reveals the alarming story of how Bush (barely) beat Kerry with his campaign of "fear, smear, and queers", and then claimed a nonexistent mandate; Republicans decided that Terri Schiavo would make "a great political issue"; Conservatives sought to undermine Social Security by using a strategy borrowed from...Vladimir Lenin; and more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Truth Hurts!
- De A. Best en 09-06-10
De: Al Franken
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Reagan at Reykjavik
- Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
- De: Ken Adelman
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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A dramatic account of the historic 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Iceland - the turning point in the Cold War - by Ken Adelman, Reagan's arms control director and a key player in that weekend's world-changing events. In October 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for a forty-eight-hour summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Planned as a short gathering to outline future talks, the meeting quickly turned to major international issues, including SDI ("Star Wars") and the possibility of eliminating all nuclear weapons.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding Tribute
- De MOV en 11-17-23
De: Ken Adelman
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The Secretary
- A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power
- De: Kim Ghattas
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 15 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 53
In November 2008, Hillary Clinton agreed to work for her former rival. As President Barack Obama's secretary of state, she set out to repair America's image around the world - and her own. For the following four years, BBC foreign correspondent Kim Ghattas had unparalleled access to Clinton and her entourage, and she weaves a fast-paced, gripping account of life on the road with Clinton in The Secretary.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Never got to the heart...
- De Mel en 04-17-13
De: Kim Ghattas
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The Greatest Comeback
- How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority
- De: Patrick J. Buchanan
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 80
After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House?
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4 out of 5 stars
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The comeback kid
- De Jean en 07-23-14
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Taking Heat
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- Circlekay1 Gulfport MS
- 11-23-17
Too much, too little.
I would have preferred less philosophy and more insights and details related to President Bush's key advisors. President Bush couldn't have been the front-guy without them.
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- JR
- 04-28-05
Ice Cold
I know that my politics differ from Fleicher but I thought I would enjoy the close up view of the President in action. Most of the book was complaining about bias of the press. It was not worth the listen!
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- Cornelius
- 03-14-05
I liked it BUT
I have always, and still respected & admired Ari, having said that I found this book a bit self serving. I was most disappointed by the fact that the book spoke in a sophomoric political tone. People who want to hear his story have a greater political mind then he addrssed. The content was fine but the delivery was a bit of a insult. I don't regret buying it at all....Best of Luck Ari...
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- Bob
- 04-14-05
An awful book
This book is a complete waste of time and money.
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- James M. Patton
- 08-07-18
One of the best press secretaries ever!!
I so appreciate that Ari Fleischer wrote this book. I read all of the presidential and staff autobiographies that I can, and I loved this inside look at the world of The White House.
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