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* With perfect timing, Pulitzer prize-winning author Barton Gellman is in London this week ahead of the US presidential election. He will be giving a talk at the London School of Economics on "The Cheney White House: Lessons for the next US President." Gellman is also promoting his book, Angler, The Shadow Presidency of Dick Cheney, a forensic expose of Cheney of the Vice President, how he acquired *****, reshaped the role fo the vice-presidency and the dilemmas facing his successor. The book is of particular interest to lawyers as it uncovers how the US constitution and international law could be distorted to service a radically conservative agenda; and reveals Cheney's hand in some of the most fateful decisions made by the Bush administration: its wiretapping programme, shift in focus from al-Queda to Iraq and reversal of energy policy. More details: Mari Yamazaki 020 7 010 3419.

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