The best details from Barton Gellman’s new book on the vice president.

By Juliet Lapidos (Slate.com)

It’s often said on late-night TV that given Dick Cheney’s cardiovascular problems, George W. Bush is just a heartbeat away from the presidency. In his new book, Angler, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman suggests that this joke contains more than just a grain of truth. By immersing himself in details about national security and numerous other hot-button issues that the president was too lazy or too incurious to study, Cheney often managed to position himself as the real “decider.”

For those of you who are too lazy or too incurious to read Gellman’s lengthy expos