Born in 1941, the year the United States entered World War II and fundamentally transformed its relationship with the wider world, Richard Bruce “Dick” Cheney parlayed connections and conviction into a meteoric rise to the epicenter of U.S. political life by the time he reached his mid-30s. He remained there for nearly four decades. Cheney died from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease on Nov. 3, at age 84. Soft-spoken and supremely confident in his own judgment, Cheney’s