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Article Excerpt
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. By Barton Gellman. New York: Penguin, 2008. 483 pp.
It is generally agreed that Richard Cheney has been history's most powerful American vice president. Although several of Cheney's recent predecessors significantly influenced executive decisions and public policy, only during Cheney's term did anyone suggest that the vice president, not the president, was piloting the ship of state. For most of the George W. Bush presidency, the public consensus regarding Cheney's unprecedented power rested largely on impressions from circumstantial evidence. Much vice presidential activity occurs behind closed doors, and Cheney, more than most, operated beyond the camera's view, in locations disclosed or not. Occasionally, an early account of the Bush years would pull back the curtain to reveal some of Cheney's activities, but most remained shielded from public view.
Angler presents a book-length study devoted entirely to Vice President Cheney's role in making and implementing crucial decisions of the Bush administration. Based on,...
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