Angler, Barton Gellman
Angler, Barton Gellman
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Angler
The Cheney Vice Presidency

Author: Barton Gellman

Narrator: Brian Keith Lewis

Unabridged: 13 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/16/2008

Synopsis

Unabridged CDs * 8 CDs, 10 hours

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barton Gellman’s newsbreaking investigative journalism documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic power.

About The Author

Barton Gellman is a special projects reporter at The Washington Post, following tours that covered diplomacy, the Middle East, the Pentagon, and the D.C. superior court. His Cheney series, with partner Jo Becker, won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize, a George Polk Award, and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Gellman also shared a Pulitzer for national reporting in 2002, and his work has been honored by the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Gellman graduated with highest honors from Princeton University and earned a master’s degree in politics at University College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power. Gellman lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ray on September 20, 2009

This was an excellent book, based on Barton Gellman's Pulitzer Prize winning 2008 investigations and writings on National politics. As a Washington Post writer, Mr. Gellman had access to many in Cheney's inner circle and the Bush White House to put together this informative description of the Vice P......more

Goodreads review by HR-ML on March 06, 2024

Barton Gellman worked for the Washington Post x 20 years when he wrote this book. I knew him from articles for The Atlantic. The author, hereafter BG, depicted VP Dick Cheney as "pulling the strings" of President George W. Bush or trying to change his mind IE on climate change. He noted times when B......more

Goodreads review by Paul on December 21, 2009

Hipsters and other types of partisan Democrats love the idea of Cheney as someone beyond a mere political adversary, but someone who truly embodies pure evil. There were times during the Bush administration that everyone must have been suspicious of such a characterization. Cheney did himself no fav......more

Goodreads review by Michael on January 25, 2009

The author was a winner of the 2008 Pulitizer Prize. This book has the potential of making you mad, it did me. It focused on the full scope of Cheney's work and it's consequences, including going from al Qaeda to Iraq, spying on Americans, promoting torture, global warming, tax cuts for the wealthy,......more

Goodreads review by emily on December 09, 2012

Terrifying, fascinating. Cheney comes off as an X-men-level supervillain and always, always the smartest guy in the room. I think, more than anything, I was really struck by the effort Mr. Gellman (and, by extension, I guess, everyone he interviewed) goes to to point out that G.W.B. was less dumb (a......more

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