Former President George W. Bush and other members of the Bush family honored former Vice President Dick Cheney after his family announced his death at age 84 on Tuesday, Nov 4.

But would the war, arguably one of the most disastrous and avoidable in American history, have happened without Cheney? Historians may quibble. But the answer that emerges from a review of Cheney’s a...

“Dick Cheney played a paramount role in decisions that ranged from war and peace to the economy, the environment, and the meaning of the law,” wrote Barton Gellman, author of “Angler: The Cheney Vice...