Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

Penguin Audio, 2008, Audio CD

Product Description

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.

Product Details

Title: Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Sales Rank: 115310 in Books
Author: Barton Gellman
Publisher: Penguin Audio, Unabridged edition, 2008-09-16, Audio CD, 11 pages, ISBN: 0143143581
Package Dimensions: 5.7 x 5.3 x 1 inches, 0.9 pounds

Customer Reviews

Brilliant, Terrifying, Fascinating: This is brilliantly written, gripping, horrifying, impossible to put down. Gellman's got 70 pages of source notes, and talks to or quotes the major players, which makes his research credible, and he sticks to the facts. Jim Comey is now my personal hero. Read this book!… More reviews

You can't understand the Bush presidency unless you read this book!: The best book of 2008, none I've read thus far even compare. Angler is an incredibly illuminating book into the most unique vice presidency in American history. I would also argue, after having read about a dozen books on President Bush and his Administration; that you cannot truly understand the failures of the Bush Administration and the woeful… More reviews

OK, not great: I have read these other reviews and they see this book as being far more scathing than I do. Perhaps my loathing of Cheney raised my expectations.
The book is a very long, somehwat dry argument for the idea that Cheney was the true "evil-doer" in the Bush administration, and that Bush himself was merely an inconvient fool. It's… More reviews

the Last 8 years revealed: We have read all the exposés of the Bush Years. This is the best and the most terrifying.… More reviews

Can he really have been so powerful?: This book is one of the first of its kind to profile Richard Cheney, although not the only one (Rise Of The Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet). Certainly Cheney deserves a biography and the question about his role in the Bush White House, the perception that he had a great deal of power and how he may have used that… More reviews