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Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America is a 2015 book on American foreign policy co-authored by Dick Cheney, who served as the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, and his daughter, Liz Cheney, a former official of the United States Department of State. The book offers a vehement criticism of President Barack Obama's foreign policy, and an unwavering defense of the virtue of American exceptionalism. The book traces the history of U.S. foreign policy and military successes and failures from Franklin Roosevelt's administration through the