Bart Gellman
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, written by Pulitzer
Prize-winning reporter Barton Gellman, details the role of Dick Cheney in
the Bush White House.
Gellman effectively researches and exposes how Cheney shaped both domestic
and foreign policy like no previous vice president. Cheney redefined the
role of the vice president, from the build-up to the war in Iraq to the
nomination of judges. Cheney’s office was right in the middle of almost all
major policy decisions made by the president, and his efforts to cover his
tracks make Gellman’s exposition and revelation all the more impressive.
Gellman also assesses the long-lasting effects of an engaged and
authority-wielding Office of the Vice President left in the wake of Cheney,
who even sought to argue that the office was above the law and beyond the
scope of anti-secrecy and open-government legislation.
More information about Barton Gellman and his work can be found
here.
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