What I Learned About Dick Cheney
The former vice president was certain he knew better than the citizens he served what was good for them.
Barton Gellman
Barton Gellman is a former staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State and the New York Times best-selling Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. Gellman’s professional honors include three Pulitzer Prizes (as team member, individual, and team anchor), an Emmy Award for documentary filmmaking, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and two Overseas Press Club awards. Before joining The Atlantic, he spent 21 years at The Washington Post as a legal, military, diplomatic, and special-projects correspondent.
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