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How Bush Rules

By Sidney Blumenthal

How Bush Rules Social Sciences

How Bush Rules

By Sidney Blumenthal

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"To paraphrase Lyndon Johnson, Sidney Blumenthal has been on the inside shooting out and now he's on the outside shooting in. He's hitting his target--the Bush administration--better than anyone else. He sets his sights on the entire Bush agenda--the blundering war in Iraq, a reckless economic policy, a corrupt Congress, and the little-noticed but highly destructive war on honest and objective national security career professionals in the CIA, the State Department, and the military. The result is a devastating account of a radical presidency."--James Carville "History's judgment of America's 43rd president is likely to be harsh. He presented himself in 2000 as a political centrist who would insist on the highest standards of honesty and accountability and would show his country's 'humble but strong' face to the world. He has governed in a very different and destructive way. The full story of how the Bush who was elected became the Bush who governed will take years to tell. But the real-time draft of history provided by Sidney Blumenthal in these dispatches will be an invaluable resource. He is a partisan, and proud of it. But he is also accurate, convincing, urbane, and far ahead of others in detecting trends and connections."--James Fallows, national correspondent for the "Atlantic Monthly" and author of "Blind Into Baghdad" "Sidney Blumenthal's sustained evisceration of the Bush II presidency is simply thrilling. At once fiery and cool, powered by the author's extraordinary feel for American politics, American history, American popular culture, and the esoteric mysteries of American conservatism, "How Bush Rules" yields so much fierce pleasure that it does the seeminglyimpossible: it makes from the materials of these lost years a thing of value."--Hendrik Hertzberg, author of "Politics: Observations and Arguments" "Sidney Blumenthal is sharper and better informed than most political scientists. He is not only erudite but also witty, accessible, a
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2006-08-10
Publication Date:
2006-08-30
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
069112888X
ISBN13:
9780691128887
Weight:
813 g
Height:
167 cm
Width:
244 cm
Thickness:
40 cm
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