Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

SPEAKER BIOS

Barton Gellman is a Pulitzer Prize winning national correspondent on leave
from The Washington Post. His new book for Penguin Press on Vice President Cheney, expands on his co-authored “Angler” series in The Post (www.washingtonpost.com/cheney). He is also fellow at the Center on Law and Security and the special projects reporter on the national staff of the Washington Post. Previously, he completed tours as diplomatic correspondent, Jerusalem bureau chief, Pentagon correspondent and D.C. Superior Court reporter. He shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2002 and has been a jury-nominated finalist (for individual and team entries) three times. His work has also been honored by the Overseas Press Club, Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi) and American Society of Newspaper Editors. Gellman graduated summa cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and earned a masters degree in politics at University College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. He is author of Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power, a study of the post-World War II “containment” doctrine and its architect, George F. Kennan.

Adam Liptak is the Supreme Court correspondent at The New York Times.  A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, Liptak practiced law at a large New York City law firm and in the legal department of The New York Times Company before joining the paper’s news staff in 2002.  He was previously the national legal correspondent there.

Liptak was a member of the reporting teams that examined the Jayson Blair and Judith Miller scandals.  He has covered the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito; the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Wilson, an undercover C.I.A. operative; judicial ethics; and various aspects of the criminal justice system.

In addition to The Times, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and several law reviews.