The landmark expose of the most powerful and secretive vice president in American historyBarton Gellman shared the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for a keen-edged reckoning with Dick Cheney's domestic agenda in The Washington Post. In Angler, Gellman goes far beyond that series to take on the full scope of Cheney's work and its consequences, including his hidden role in the Bush administration's most fateful choices in war: shifting focus from al Qaeda to Iraq, unleashing the National Security Agency to spy at home, and promoting cruel and inhumane methods of interrogation. Packed with fresh insights and untold stories, Gellman parts the curtains of secrecy to show how the vice president operated and what he wrought.
An inspiration for the film Vice, starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Steve Carrell.
- ISBN10 1594201862
- ISBN13 9781594201868
- Publish Date 16 September 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Penguin Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 483
- Language English