About the Author
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage is a Washington correspondent for the New York Times and has been covering post-9/11 legal policy issues since 2003. A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, he graduated from Harvard College and holds a master’s degree from Yale Law School. His first book, Takeover, a bestselling and award-winning account of the Bush-Cheney administration’s efforts to expand presidential power, was named one of the best works of 2007 by the Washington Post, Slate, and Esquire.