Angie Brooks is an award winning author, screenwriter and public speaker. She has written seven novels about international relations, which have been turned into major motion pictures. Her first novel, The Age of Trust, was turned into a successful motion picture starring Morgan Freeman and unseated George Clooney as America’s first Ambassador to Germany. Brooks has written many other best-selling novels including The National Interest, A Time to Kill, Wittenberg and Confidence. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, L Magazine, Foreign Policy, National Geographic Traveler, Town and Country, Reader’s Digest, Harvard Business Review, Chicago Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Business Week, Fast Company, Wired, Town and Country, and numerous other online business magazines. She has been interviewed on numerous news and talk shows concerning issues regarding international relations, arms control, climate change, alternative energy, and other topics of interest to the American public.
Angie Brooks is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Honor, the Exceptional Service medal, the Armed Forces Meritorious Service medal, the Intelligence Service medal, the NATO participation medal, the Russian Federation medal for extraordinary service, the Ukrainian-American Foundation medal, the Simonetta medal, the Citizen of the Order of the British empire, and the Outstanding Volunteer of the Year award. She has also served as an editor in The Wall Street Journal, and was a news reporter for Newsweek. She has also been a contributing writer for Vanity Fair, Town and Country, Glamour magazine, Allure magazine, Crain’s Business, Self Magazine, and many others. Brooks is currently working with Millennium Media on a book entitled Brinksmanship.
While serving as a professor at the University of Michigan, Brooks co-authored a paper on International Political Leadership and served as a foreign policy advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. She is currently married to former Arkansas Attorney General and Vice President Dick Cheney. Angie Brooks is proud of her international and comparative knowledge in the subject of world politics and served as an assistant for Lawrence O’Donnell, who was a young adviser to President Reagan. Prior to working for the Bush administration, Brooks was an associate professor at the University of London, where she taught political science. She is a member of the British academy of sciences and medicine, and a past president of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her honors further include membership in the National Institute of Mental Health, and the academy of General Physiology.