With Rebel-in-Chief, veteran political reporter Fred Barnes provides the defining book on George W. Bush�??s presidency, giving an insider�??s view of how Bush�??s unique presidential style and bold reforms are dramatically remaking the country�??and, indeed, the world. In the process, Barnes shows, the president is shaking up Washington and reshaping the conservative movement.

Barnes has gained extraordinary access to the Bush administration for Rebel-in-Chief, conducting rare one-on-one interviews with President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and many other close presidential advisers. That access, along with Barnes�??s extensive independent reporting and interviewing, produces an eye-opening look at this highly consequential�??and controversial�??presidency.

Rebel-in-Chief reveals:

• How Bush acts as an �??insurgent force�?� in the nation�??s capital�??�??a different kind of president�?� who is turning the Washington establishment on its ear
• How Bush is redefining conservatism for a new era�??and creating a new Republican majority
• The inside story of how Bush has revolutionized American foreign policy�??and how the president's crusade for democracy would have been anathema to Bush himself only five years ago
• When and why Bush decided to go into Iraq, even knowing that he was putting his political future at risk
• How a White House aide you've probably never heard of is shaping the Bush vision
• The surprising and important ways Bush's faith affects critical presidential decisions
• How Bush has outmaneuvered his political opponents and surprised members of the press who have dismissed him as an intellectual bantamweight
• How Bush routinely defies conventional wisdom because of his contempt for elite opinion and halfway reforms (�??small-ball,�?� he calls them)�??and why he usually wins