Angler
Subtitle: the Cheney vice presidency
By: Barton Gellman.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9781594201868
Subjects: Cheney, Richard B; Cheney, Richard B. -- Political and social views; Vice-Presidents -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Genres: Biography.
Description: Dick Cheney changed history, defining his times and shaping a White House as no vice president has before--yet concealing most of his work from public view. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman shows how Cheney operated, why, and what he wrought. This is a work of careful, concrete, and original reporting backed by hundreds of interviews with close Cheney allies as well as rivals, many speaking candidly on the record for the first time. It is a study of the inner workings of the Bush administration and the vice president's central role as the administration's canniest power player. Gellman exposes the mechanics of Cheney's largely successful post-September 11 campaign to win unchecked power for the commander in chief, and reflects upon, and perhaps changes, the legacy that Cheney--and the Bush administration as a whole--will leave as they exit office.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: A Very Short List
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: A Different Understanding
pagenum: 31; label: 3
title: Pivot Points
pagenum: 61; label: 4
title: Energy in the Executive
pagenum: 81; label: 5
title: Very Hard and Very Quick
pagenum: 109; label: 6
title: Enemies, Foreign and Domestic
pagenum: 131; label: 7
title: Dark Side
pagenum: 159; label: 8
title: Matching the Science
pagenum: 195; label: 9
title: Demonstration Effect
pagenum: 215; label: 10
title: Supply Side
pagenum: 255; label: 11
title: Off the Tracks
pagenum: 277; label: 12
title: U-turn on Constitution Avenue
pagenum: 299; label: 13
title: Nemesis
pagenum: 327; label: 14
title: Regime Change
pagenum: 367; title: Acknowldgments
pagenum: 396; title: Notes
pagenum: 400; title: Index
pagenum: 471