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Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

Barton Gellman

How did Dick Cheney turn the vice presidency into a center of real power, and how far did he push the powers of the commander in chief?

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Author
Barton Gellman

Why read it

  • You will learn how a quarrel over process, such as the energy task force, can really be about the constitutional balance of power
  • You will see how a vice president's lawyers claimed sweeping wartime powers until courts, Congress and Justice Department lawyers pushed back
  • You will weigh the cost of a government whose key events were closed to the public and the press

Who it is for

  • Citizens asking how executive power grew after the September attacks
  • Law students studying separation of powers and wartime authority
  • Readers of Washington politics who prefer reported detail to opinion

Contents

  1. Angler
  2. Angler
  3. Barton Gellman
  4. Angler
  5. Chapter One
  6. A VERY SHORT LIST
  7. Chapter Two
  8. A DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING
  9. Chapter Three
  10. PIVOT POINTS
  11. Chapter Four
  12. ENERGY IN THE EXECUTIVE
  13. Chapter Five
  14. VERY HARD AND VERY QUICK
  15. Chapter Six
  16. ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
  17. Chapter Seven
  18. DARK SIDE
  19. Photographic Insert
  20. Chapter Eight
  21. MATCHING THE SCIENCE
  22. Chapter Nine
  23. DEMONSTRATION EFFECT
  24. Chapter Ten
  25. SUPPLY SIDE
  26. Chapter Eleven
  27. OFF THE TRACKS
  28. Chapter Twelve
  29. U-TURN ON CONSTITUTION AVENUE
  30. Chapter Thirteen
  31. NEMESIS
  32. Chapter Fourteen
  33. REGIME CHANGE

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