The George W Bush administration - what book(s) should I read?

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I usually wait until the start of the new administration but I've run out of books about Clinton and I think I can cope with reading some more in depth stuff about George W now I'm sure he's going. Sort the wheat from the chaff in this lot...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_and_films_about_George_W._Bush

fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 6 November 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)

I strongly suspect that the best books about Bush II will be the ones published after Jan 20, 2009.

Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 6 November 2008 22:55 (seventeen years ago)

Having said that, I liked Fortunate Son a lot despite the controversy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunate_Son_(Hatfield)

Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 6 November 2008 22:56 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, I guess. But there must be something worth reading on that wiki list?

fat penne (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:00 (seventeen years ago)

Robert Draper, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, (2007) ISBN 0-7432-7728-7

no way is this book pro-bush!

m coleman, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:23 (seventeen years ago)

Charles Savage's Takeover is by far the most serious, readable account of how Cheney imposed his theories of the Imperial Presidency on a hapless Chief Executive. Savage won the Pulitzer in 2006 for his series of Boston Globe articles on Bush's use of signing statements.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 6 November 2008 23:32 (seventeen years ago)

here's some i'd recommend.

the price of loyalty — ron suskind. basically an as-told-to book by paul o'neill, bush's first treasury secretary, ousted in late '02. o'neill was hardcore conservative -- he wanted to privatize social security and get rid of all corporate taxes -- and even he was horrified by the brutal incompetence and iraq-fixation. a lot of serious financial talk, so not for the lighthearted, but very enlightening and well worth reading.

dead certain — robert draper. draper obviously likes w. a lot as a person but he isn't sycophantic at all. i thought it was a wonderful read, and more revealing in some ways than the woodward books (which are also well worth reading, despite woodward's determination to describe every single person as "handsome" and possessed of "a ready smile").

J.D., Friday, 7 November 2008 02:57 (seventeen years ago)

alfred will laugh at me, but this is the best description i've ever read of the man: http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1476

J.D., Friday, 7 November 2008 02:59 (seventeen years ago)

ha -- I KNEW it was Karp.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 7 November 2008 03:01 (seventeen years ago)

I liked Angler -- even though it is about Cheney, it has a lot of insight into his influence on Bush.

Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 7 November 2008 03:20 (seventeen years ago)

when I clicked on the thread I thought "has anyone read Angler .... I'm sort of interested"

guess I should check it out

what I read of it in the Post was good

dmr, Friday, 7 November 2008 06:51 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

WE WILL BURY YOU IN OUR LIBRARY

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qnkkIdVB4mw/TOPdL8e-FAI/AAAAAAAAd-s/dHRUzksVTvs/s1600/BUSH-popup.jpg

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:48 (fifteen years ago)

Man, that Dick Cheney shot is begging for some Photoshop LOLs.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:07 (fifteen years ago)

"hehe, this pile of shit in my shovel pretty much sums up my legacy."

Mark Chmuras Hot Tub Crime Machine (chrisv2010), Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:08 (fifteen years ago)

and condi looks like she's holding her cock.

Mark Chmuras Hot Tub Crime Machine (chrisv2010), Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:10 (fifteen years ago)

Or extracting something from her uterus.

look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:12 (fifteen years ago)

Another shovel-ready project brought to you by the Obama Stimulus Plan.

clemenza, Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:39 (fifteen years ago)

Cheney made a joke along those lines at this shindig, along with "HISTORY IS STARTING TO COME AROUND"

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:40 (fifteen years ago)

I'm thinking like Dick Cheney? Geez...

clemenza, Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:42 (fifteen years ago)


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