Bush
at War by Bob Woodward From the author of eight New York Times bestsellers comes an authoritative
account of the first 18 months of the Bush White House, and perhaps the
biggest story since the end of the Vietnam War. Based on hundreds of interviews
throughout the Administration, Woodward's account will provide the first
in-depth, behind-the-scenes story of the new, untested President as he
responds to the worst acts of terror on American soil.
Hardcover: 400 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.23 x
9.04 x 6.88 Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0743204735; (November 19,
)
The
Bush - Haters Handbook: A Guide to the Most Appalling Presidency of the
Past 100 Years by Jack
Huberman Book Description: The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those
looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record
from a liberal perspective, or those who want to arm themselves with talking
points, facts, and figures for debates with conservatives, and at those
seeking the perfect holiday gift book for that certain, special Bush-hater
in their lives-or for a Bush-lover they hope to rescue from the outer darkness.
Summarizing, detailing, and bewailing all of the more important Bush administration
outrages, and some of the more trivial ones, this book is the brainchild
of Jack Huberman, a former Canadian who took up U.S. citizenship just so
he could vote against Dubya in 2000. Topics range from abortion, AIDS,
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and Ashcroft, to women and workplace safety.
Other major topics include budget and taxes, civil liberties, death penalty,
defense spending, education, environment, gun control, health care, homeland
security, Iraq, judicial nominations, "nucular" weapons, patients' rights,
privacy, public land, September 11 and the war on terror, and social security.
In between are a variety of smaller topics, such as Bush's language abilities
(featuring a selection of priceless Bushisms). The pages are also enlivened
by sidebars, "boxed" lists, and political cartoons.
Paperback from Nation Books
A
Charge to Keep by George W. Bush, Karen Hughes
...a puzzling exercise. It offers little more than his standard
stump speech does to convey what a Bush presidency might be like.
The
New York Times Book Review, Adam Clymer Hardcover - 253 pages 1 Ed edition (November 17, ) William Morrow & Co; ISBN: 0688174418
Stupid
White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
Stupid White Men, Michael Moore's screed against "Thief-in-Chief"
George Bush's power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication.
Why? It's as fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing
bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining
as a wrestling smackdown. Moore offers a more interesting critique of the
2000 election than Ralph Nader's Crashing the Party (he argued with
Nader, his old boss, who sacked him), and he's serious when he advocates
ousting Bush. But Moore's rage is outrageous, couched in shameless gags
and madcap comedy: "Old white men wielding martinis and wearing dickies
have occupied our nation's capital.... Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring
us the head of Antonin Scalia!... We are no longer [able] to hold free
and fair elections. We need U.N. observers, U.N. troops." Moore's ideas
range from on-the-money (Arafat should beat Sharon with Gandhi's nonviolent
shame tactics) to over-the-top: blacks should put inflatable white dolls
in their cars so racist cops will think they're chauffeurs; the ever-more-Republicanesque
Democratic Party should be sued for fraud; "no contributions toward advancing
our civilization ever came out of the South [except Faulkner, Hellman,
and R.J. Reynolds]," because it's too hot to think straight there; Korean
dictator Kim Jong-il "has got to broaden himself beyond porn and John Wayne"
by watching better movies, like Dude, Where's My Car? (which contains
"all you need to know about America"). Whatever your politics, Stupid
White Men should make you blow your stack. --Tim Appelo, Amazon.com
George W. Bushisms2012Day-To-Day Calendar by Jacob Weisberg
Listed under Humor
Calendars
The
Bush Dyslexicon by Mark Crispin Miller
A book on the mangled language of the 43rd President, and how the spin
merchants and the media manoeuvred him into power. Db. Read more about this book...
The Immaculate Deception : The Bush Crime Family Exposed by Russell S. Bowen
Listed under George Bush
Worse
Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John
W. Dean The most facile presidential comparison one could make for George W.
Bush would be his father, who presided over a war in Iraq and a struggling
economy. Some "neocons" reject the parallel and compare Bush to his father's
predecessor, Ronald Reagan, citing a plainspoken quality and a belief in
deep tax cuts. But John Dean goes further back, seeing in Bush all the
secrecy and scandal of Dean's former boss, the notorious Richard Nixon.
The difference, as the title of Dean's book indicates, is that Bush is
a heck of a lot worse. While the book provides insightful snippets of the
way Nixon used to do business, it offers them to shed light on the practices
of Bush. In Dean's estimation, the secrecy with which Bush and Dick Cheney
govern is not merely a preferred system of management but an obsessive
strategy meant to conceal a deeply troubling agenda of corporate favoritism
and a dramatic growth in unchecked power for the executive branch that
put at risk the lives of American citizens, civil liberties, and the Constitution.
Dean sets out to make his point by drawing attention to several areas about
which Bush and Cheney have been tight-lipped: the revealing by a "senior
White House official" of the identity of an undercover CIA operative whose
husband questioned the administration, the health of Cheney, the identity
of Cheney's energy task force, the information requested by the bi-partisan
9/11 commission, Bush's business dealings early in his career, the creation
of a "shadow government", wartime prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, and
scores more. He theorizes that the truth about these and many other situations,
including the decision to go to war in Iraq, will eventually surface and
that Bush and Cheney's secrecy is a thus far effective means of keep a
lid on a rapidly multiplying set of lies and scandals that far outstrip
the misdeeds that led directly to Dean's former employer resigning in disgrace.
Dean's charges are impassioned and more severe than many of Bush's most
persistent critics. But those charges are realized only after careful reasoning
and steady logic by a man who knows his way around scandal and corruption.
--John
Moe - Amazon.com Hardcover from Little Brown & Company
