On a hill above the home town of Condoleezza Rice, in Birmingham, Alabama stands a 56 foot statue of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. It became the adopted mascot of a small and powerful group of people intent on changing the course of U.S. history.
The Vulcans, as they came to be known in the 2000 campaign, include Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, and Paul Wolfowitz. When they came into office, some dismissed them as has-beens, tired relics from Republican administrations going back to President Nixon. But the people some called “retreads” are now recognized as revolutionaries, the ideological warriors whose faith in America’s untrammeled military strength is, quite simply, changing the world.
Guests:
James Mann, author of “Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet.”