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For most of American history, no one would have dreamed of writing a vice-presidential biography. From 1804, when the 12th Amendment established our current method of choosing VPs, until 1901, when William McKinley's assassination placed Theodore Roosevelt in the Oval Office, the No. 2 position was a steppingstone to oblivion. T.R., elected in his own right in 1904, broke the pattern. Calvin Coolidge...
In Thursday’s vice presidential debate , Gov. Sarah Palin said she “agrees” with Dick Cheney’s expansive view of the power of the executive branch and the vice presidency: PALIN: I do agree with him that we have a lot of flexibility in there, that we’ll do what we have to do to administer very appropriately the plans that are needed for this nation. Interviewed on CNN today, the Washington Post’s Barton...
... the rule of law? For the Geneva Conventions? Beyond shameful. On Monday at 3 pm ET, we'll have BartonGellman here for a Book Salon on Angler . The reporting is superb and infuriating. Scott Horton recently interviewed Gellman, and this stuck with me : There were times when Gonzales, at Addington’s behest, simply ordered John Yoo not to tell his own superiors what he was doing....
Think I forgot to post this... HARDCOVER NONFICTION Top 5 at a Glance 1. HOT, FLAT, AND CROWDED, by Thomas L. Friedman 2. THE WAR WITHIN, by Bob Woodward 3. THE LIMITS OF POWER, by Andrew Bacevich 4. ANGLER, by BartonGellman 5. THROUGH THE STORM, by Lynne Spears with Lorilee Craker Source
The Washington Post excerpted BartonGellman’s new book on the Cheney Vice Presidency. Gellman includes the following scene which helps to fill in the gaps in the story that culminated in the infamous showdown in Attorney General Ashcroft’s hospital room. After Ashcroft, Comey, Goldsmith, and Philbin had determined that the Bush administration was breaking the [...]
Washington Post reporter BartonGellman levels a host of indictments against the standing vice president, the formidably secretive Chief of Staff, Dick Cheney.
