Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency | Barton Gellman

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency | Barton Gellman | Angler

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Angler: The Cheney...

	Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency Barton Gellman Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

He's Still There

While much attention has been paid the dirty tricks of Karl Rove, it took a lot more initiative to trace the pernicious influence of Dick Cheney since the Supreme Court made him vice president in 2000. Washington Post reporter Bart Gellman took that initiative, and in Angler he makes the case that Watergate isn't really over, that in Dick Cheney and his mentor Donald Rumsfeld, the drive toward the imperial presidency is well and alive; it was temporarily forced underground.

Gellman, I'm happy to say, does not speak in such grand generalities as I do. He carefully documents the agenda that Cheney took with him to the vice presidency and how he deliberately and meticulously railroaded the inclinations of a lazy and careless President George W. Bush to make that man a tool of his agenda and one of the most ruthlessly powerful presidents in history. We still don't know the death toll.

Gellman lays to rest any suspicions that Cheney did this for financial gain. In Cheney's case, it's power and its exercise for its own value that drives the man, and he's self-righteous about any suggestions that he's profited monetarily from his pro-war, anti-environmental, free market positions. In my opinion, it hardly matters, but I'm less analytical than Gellman whose reporting and writing are at the same time thorough and engaging.

After the dust settles on the 2008 election, we would be wise to revisit this book, which makes it absolutely clear that the office of vice president has become potentially far more powerful than the Constitution intended in the right (or wrong) person's hands and that failing to address Cheney's power grab was one of the Democrats' worst mistakes. I won't sleep entirely easy until both Cheneys (How Dick's wife,Lynn, got into the Capitol bunker on 9/11 Gellman doesn't say.) are out of Washington.

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Angler

If you want to understand why and how the Bush administration functioned you must read this well written and authoritative book. It's the best I've read and I've read many.

A must read for history buffs.

I found this book to be a very informative read. Prior to purchasing this book I had heard very little of the inner workings of the Cheney Vice-Presidency. Many of the stories retold in the book lead to a deeply disturbing look at how one man gained so much power with so little accountability to the people who sent him there. A true must read for anyone interested in the executive branch and its history. It would have been nice to hear more for the central players themselves (Cheney and Addington) but I can see why they would be reluctant to talk.

While Angler discusses some of the darker times in American politics the passages speaking about the justice department and its defiance of the Vice-Presidents Offices over warrantless wire taps were downright inspiring.

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Excellent Book

Excellent book that gives deep insight into the abomination that was the Cheney Vice Presidency. A must-read for anyone who gives a rat's butt about this country.

Angler angles

Easy to read with emphasis on Cheneys' dictatorial agenda. Also shows the
importance of the legal input he gets. Particular attention by he and his
cronies to negate any trace of proof or fingerprints.

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