
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
(Penguin Press)
In this exposé of Cheney’s term in office, the author, who shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for his Washington Post series on Cheney’s domestic agenda, examines the vice president’s role in the Bush administration’s shifting focus from al-Qaida to Iraq, unleashing the National Security Agency to spy at home, and promoting the use of torture in interrogations. Gellman is a special-projects reporter for The Washington Post.

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