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Title details for The Book on Bush by Eric Alterman - Available

The Book on Bush

How George W. (Mis)leads America

by Eric Alterman
Mark Green
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Not since Richard Nixon's heyday has there been a more controversial president capable of polarizing public opinion than George W. Bush. From his arrival in office through what many still regard as one of the most flagrant miscarriages of electoral justice in modern history to the long road to Iraq, liberals have vilified Bush as ardently as neoconservatives have embraced him. Both Alterman and Green are known for their doggedness in researching the media and political figures, and what they discover in the case of Bush is a consistent pattern of double standards, misrepresentation, and contradictions. The Book on Bush methodically critiques Administration policy from the standpoint of its truthfulness as well as its merit, with the characteristic wit of both writers.

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  • Release date

    May 11, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792741565
      • File size: 560499 KB
      • Duration: 19:27:42

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Sixteen CDs of minutely researched facts and factoids, gaffes and disasters, lies and deception on the part of George W. Bush and his handlers are immortalized here. Read with appropriate outrage and clarity, this report attempts to tie up Mr. Bush in his own doubletalk and evasions. It usually succeeds. Whether examining domestic or foreign policy, the environment or the budget, on-the-record or hush-hush rumor, THE BOOK ON BUSH overlooks nothing. Citizens of all stripes will be sure to cringe at the robustly, wryly delivered barrage of GWB blunders, bullying, and bombs. D.J.B. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 1, 2004
      Despite Sullivan's dry reading style, it's clear that presenting this voluminous work, which compiles the many sins that Alterman and Green believe President George W. Bush has committed, is no chore for Sullivan. By keeping his tone even and matter-of-fact, Sullivan conveys the sense that that there is no need to embellish the facts: Bush's record on environmental policy and other matters speaks for itself. Every so often, however, Sullivan's voice rises with excitement, especially when the authors quote one of Bush's own statements and then reveal it to be, in their eyes at least, yet another example of Bush's slippery tactics. Those looking for an objective, constructive or even mildly entertaining take on current politics will find their eyelids drooping as they listen to the authors' itemized list of all the ways Bush has lied, prevaricated and shifted the country's priorities in favor of big business and the Religious Right. This is an exhaustive and exhausting listen, one which might have been better off abridged.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 22, 2003
      Examining the Bush administration's record on domestic and foreign policy issues, Alterman (What Liberal Media?
      ) and former New York City public advocate Green see a pattern of dissimulation to promote the interests of the religious right, big business and neoconservative radicals. The two progressive champions make no effort to hide their dislike of Bush, branding him an "affirmative-action-legacy student" lacking knowledge and brain power. But the weight of their evidence and their reasonable tone make it difficult to dismiss them as ideologues. Though David Corn recently covered this territory in The Lies of George W. Bush
      , Alterman and Green provide more up-to-the-minute information on several issues, including the Environmental Protection Agency's withholding of information about potential health risks to residents of lower Manhattan after 9/11. They also document a disregard for truth displayed by other administration officials and by Bush's federal judicial appointees. From this voluminous record emerges a portrait of Bush as an ideological bully who knows how to "fake left and drive to the right," passing himself off as a populist while launching initiatives that benefit only his hardcore supporters. Expect liberal cognoscenti to back this book in droves as the election campaigns heat up.

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