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Summary: Tells it like it is in the Bush Administration...
Review: Please don't be turned off on this book from some of the other reviewers with an obvious agenda (i.e. an extreme right-wing agenda) who bash this book. The authors present facts about how the current administration has and continues to mislead the American public in many different areas. This book should not be lumped into the same category as Iven's and Franken's recent offerings, it is much more technical and goes into excruciating detail when making it's points. Read this and judge for yourself. Btw, take what "Doctor" James S. Moore says with a grain of salt... for a sec there I thought he was a real doctor, but I wasn't suprised to discover he is really a psychologist. Look at his other reviews if you don't believe me, the guy's a crackpot.
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Summary: Idiot
Review: R.b.Crook you are an idiot. I read your reviews they all say the same thing. You are the brainwashed one and im surprised youve read so many anti bush books. lol! You are the reason abortion should be legal.
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Summary: The Manchurian President
Review: Read this book!
Where to begin? The facts speak for themselves. No president-ever-has done more to inflame and divide the Nation's citizens and alienate its allies; broaden the disparity between rich and poor; despoil the environment; trample on the Constitution; disdain Science; publicly promote religion; gut Education; and burden the Nation with soon-to-be trillion dollar debt that, if left unchecked, will ruin the average man and woman's standard of living for generations to come and reduce our standing in the world from a superpower to a has-been. Oh, and he started a "dubyious" war, whose rationales have been changed more often than a newborn's Pampers. Not bad for three plus years in office.
No administration-ever-has raised hypocrisy and outright lying to the level of an art form as has Bush and his cronies. The fraud has reached Orwellian proportions: black is white and white is black and gray doesn't exist; bait-and-switch and deception have become Republican parlor games; manipulation of the facts and sleight of mind gull a mouth-breathing press so efficaciously that even David Blaine sits up in amazement. His politics is a direct reflection of his neo-Calvinist persona: Us and Them; Privileged and everyone else. Either you're with us or against us. In his world-view, life is a zero-sum game and your "contribution" is measured by the dollars you've accumulated-in Dubya's case, handed to him-and where greed is not merely countenanced, but revered. His is a world where whoever dies with the most money is the one who wins. G. W. Bush is a man without honor, ignorant of life's complexities, and whose only tool is the hammer of the Big Lie.
To say that he is a cynic is to give Dubya too much credit. Cynicism implies a thought process in which opposing ideas and outcomes are weighed one against the other and the philosophical inference drawn from this calculus is that the world is headed to hell in a handcart. Dubya has neither the means nor the inclination to arrive at reasoned conclusions. He is a Believer. He knows that he is right because he knows that he is right, and that saying so makes it so. It is primitive, but, for far too many people, persuasive. Never having bothered to learn to think critically, Dubya is himself easily manipulated, and this is where his tenure in office becomes truly scary. He is merely the face and the pitchman for a gradually evolving and well-funded, but a dare-not-speak-its-name, movement in this country toward Fascism. Conspiracy theory? Was Hilary Clinton deluded when she attributed the assaults on her and her husband to a "vast right-wing conspiracy"? In fact, the identities and beliefs of these individuals and their families are widely known, so much so that they hardly deserve the appellation "conspirators." These monied entities couldn't be more thrilled than to have this puppet with the elongated proboscis in the Oval Office. This is the "Nation" that G. W. Bush represents, and his performance has far exceeded their wildest dreams.
When it comes to sheer chutzpah and brazen partisan goose-stepping, Dubya beats Reagan hands down. If there is such a thing as "Evil," which the President, having been advised by the Big Guy Himself, assures us there is, then every one of us has reason to tremble in fear: our fate is in Their hands.
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Summary: self promoting auther
Review: Self serving attempt to make a quick buck off of terriosm. Author lacks clear facts, uses to many "undisclosed sources".
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Summary: A good but hard read
Review: Takes a little effort to read. Leaves you in a depressed mood. Well documented. Depicts the action after the words. Should be required reading for those who think it makes no difference who you vote for because they think the outcome is always the same.
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Summary: Depressing, but important
Review: The Book on Bush"The Book on Bush" is a tough read, in more ways than one. Style-wise, it isn't as entertaining as "What Liberal Media," the book that turned me on to Eric Alterman, but I don't think that this book was written in an effort to draw people to the arguments it contains (which, I believe, "W.L.M?" was); I figure that Alterman and Green wrote it more as a political science report, and with (probably, liberal) policy junkies as an intended audience. The other way in which it is hard to read is that it is depressing. That said, I think more people should read it. Particularly right-wing policy junkies. It seems to go through all of the Bush policies that I can remember and details, a, what Bush claimed for each initiative, b, what Bush did to get the initiative enacted, c, what each initiative actually caused to be, and, d, how the Administration actually supported each initiative once enacted. Like I said, pretty depressing (even for old-school conservatives, probably; the neo-cons never ran so wild when the old-school conservatives were in charge as they do now). My guess is that a lot of people who reflexively support Bush will gripe about this book. Another guess of mine is that a lot of people who support Bush don't actually follow the policies of his administration that closely, and will assume that this book is written by Bush haters that will make stuff up to defend an ideological position. I understand that; most of the (monolithic?) right's most successful writers do that so often that, to them, it seems fair to assume that the left does the same thing. As it happens, the (better) books (like this one) that come from the left are actually researched and (credibly) foot-noted. Which is to say, "Bush Lovers, read this at your own peril (and weep)." The main thing I got from this book is the confidence to ask people who still support Bush as President the question "Why?" Whichever policy stance they claim as a reason to still like the guy, I'll be able to say "but don't you know, he actually told the Congress 'x' and then did 'y?'" If you need thoughtful ammunition of this sort, buy this book; if you need a 'cheer me up, I'm depressed about where the country is currently going,' sort of book, you might skip this and re-read some Elmore Leonard (which won't help, either, but won't make your blues worse).
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Summary: Depressing, but important
Review: The Book on Bush "The Book on Bush" is a tough read, in more ways than one. Style-wise, it isn't as entertaining as "What Liberal Media," the book that turned me on to Eric Alterman, but I don't think that this book was written in an effort to draw people to the arguments it contains (which, I believe, "W.L.M?" was); I figure that Alterman and Green wrote it more as a political science report, and with (probably, liberal) policy junkies as an intended audience. The other way in which it is hard to read is that it is depressing. That said, I think more people should read it. Particularly right-wing policy junkies. It seems to go through all of the Bush policies that I can remember and details, a, what Bush claimed for each initiative, b, what Bush did to get the initiative enacted, c, what each initiative actually caused to be, and, d, how the Administration actually supported each initiative once enacted. Like I said, pretty depressing (even for old-school conservatives, probably; the neo-cons never ran so wild when the old-school conservatives were in charge as they do now). My guess is that a lot of people who reflexively support Bush will gripe about this book. Another guess of mine is that a lot of people who support Bush don't actually follow the policies of his administration that closely, and will assume that this book is written by Bush haters that will make stuff up to defend an ideological position. I understand that; most of the (monolithic?) right's most successful writers do that so often that, to them, it seems fair to assume that the left does the same thing. As it happens, the (better) books (like this one) that come from the left are actually researched and (credibly) foot-noted. Which is to say, "Bush Lovers, read this at your own peril (and weep)." The main thing I got from this book is the confidence to ask people who still support Bush as President the question "Why?" Whichever policy stance they claim as a reason to still like the guy, I'll be able to say "but don't you know, he actually told the Congress 'x' and then did 'y?'" If you need thoughtful ammunition of this sort, buy this book; if you need a 'cheer me up, I'm depressed about where the country is currently going,' sort of book, you might skip this and re-read some Elmore Leonard (which won't help, either, but won't make your blues worse).
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Summary: Sad, sad sad little man.
Review: This a very poorly written book. I couldn't even finish it, full of details, yes, but it really doens't say anything.
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Summary: Tacky
Review: This book is a cheap self serving way for Eric Alterman to make money of off the war on terrorism. I am a liberal New Yorker and was never for the war in iraq. But this book is so over the top with inuendo and fabrications, its silly. I wish alterman would show a little class and not have used to tradegy of 9/11 to make a few bucks for himself. It down right disgraceful.
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Summary: Indispensable
Review: This book is comprised of 419 pages that are laden with highly cogent reasons that illustrate the fact this Bush administration has been destructive to this country and why he needs to be made a one-term president. Alterman and Green use a format that juxtaposes what the administration officially has said versus what it actually has done, providing incontrovertible evidence to indicate this is the worst administration in recent history, and possibly in US history. Those of us who have followed this administration from its onset via news reports will find this book corroborates those individual reports quite accurately.
The real value of this book is that it is the most comprehensive documentation of this administration published yet. Although these reports are generally available in newspapers and on the Internet, one must research extensively for them. Furthermore, while other books in this genre focus on only one or two policies, admittedly sometimes more in depth, this one covers all the pertinent aspects of Bush 43's mendacity. No matter what your passion, from the environment and the economy to civil liberties and the war in Iraq, you will find solid evidence here that this man and his administration have not only failed you, but have also purposely misled you while bilking you simultaneously. The timing of its publishing also could not be better because without doubt this will most assuredly compel you to vote this man out of office come November. Those inclined to believe Bush's rhetoric will benefit most from reading this detailed account because it illustrates the extreme disconnect between his rhetoric and reality and how he deceives by duplicity.
It is indeed a shame that too few Americans will read this sober, scholarly book and heed the lessons it imparts. Personally, I find it incomprehensible that Americans are still able support to Bush after what he has demonstrated the past three-plus years, and indeed only the most reluctant to believe the truth will still support him. Some of what he has perpetrated is considered impeachable under charges of high crimes. What is more egregious is the fact Clinton was held responsible for receiving oral sex, for which he never, ever should have had to testify under oath. Even though I am not trying to justify his personal decisions, his actions did not personally affect me or anyone else (which no one can honestly refute) except his family. Perhaps the most inexplicable, shameful aspect is that the American public is not holding bush accountable for his actions, which have cost our country irreparable harm in terms of our reputation, our environment, our economy, class warfare and human lives (thousands of lives and counting). I get the impression that, despite the efforts of such excellent arguments as this book, the American public is unwilling to indict this man because it is either too indolent to read an entire book or it actually agrees with the man's policies. Whichever the case, both prospects actually frighten me and are cause for profound concern.
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