LSE public lecture
Date: Monday 27 October 2008
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Barton Gellman
Chair: Charlie Beckett
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the newly published Angler: The Shadow Presidency of Dick Cheney (Allen Lane, 2008), describes how America's most powerful vice president shaped the Bush years - and what Obama or McCain need to know about his legacy.
Barton Gellman| is a special projects reporter at The Washington Post, following tours that covered diplomacy, the Middle East, the Pentagon, and the D.C. superior court. His Cheney series, with partner Jo Becker, won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize, a George Polk Award, and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Gellman also shared a Pulitzer for national reporting in 2002, and his work has been honored by the Overseas Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Gellman graduated with highest honors from Princeton University and earned a master's degree in politics at University College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power. Gellman lives in New York City with the writer Dafna Linzer and four children: Abigail, Michael, Lily, and Benjamin.
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