A bevy of (good) books on Bush due in bookstores before balloting

[Nambe]

WASHINGTON (AFP)

With less than 100 days to go to the US presidential election, dozens of new books criticizing President George W. Bush are about to flood US bookstores.

Already, in the first six months of 2004, several books about Bush hit US bestseller lists. One of the most talked about was "The Price of Loyalty," a tell-all by former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill that described Bush "like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people" at White House cabinet meetings.

"Against All Enemies" by former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard Clarke accused the Bush administration of neglecting terrorist threats prior to September 11. It too became a bestseller shortly after publication. ..

In 25 years of publishing, "I've never seen anything like this, in terms of the volume and energy of books attacking a sitting president in an election year," Jeff Zaleski, editor in chief of the industry magazine Publishers Weekly, told USA Today.

[Geo55]

1. Excellent......turn up the volume.....every reasonable point is helpful

[gatlingforme]

2. The Price of Loyalty was an excellent book, my favorite so far.

[54anickel]

3. The Bush Bash

Write ups like this are beginning to turn up on some of the old Republican conservative sites as well. Hopefully Shrub will only have his base of elites and fundamental extremists if this keeps up.

http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20040806/index.php

Books keep pouring off the presses on the subject of why George W. Bush should not be re-elected. I got four in my mailbox recently. Bush might be the biggest boon to book publishing since Harry Potter.

The most serious of the four books is "The Bubble of American Supremacy," by George Soros. The most superficial is "Bush Must Go," by TV personality Bill Press. The most left-wing is "The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America," by Eric Alterman and Mark Green. It is also the most tedious. My God, but progressive writers do need a sense of humor.

The best of the bunch by far is "The Bush Betrayal," by one of my favorite writers, James Bovard. Bovard is a scrupulously accurate researcher of facts. His philosophical framework is the same as that of Thomas Jefferson. Press, Alterman and Green are mad at Bush for being too far to the right for their socialist tastes. Bovard points out Bush's betrayal of conservative and libertarian principles. Though far more leftist than Bovard, Soros also points out Bush's betrayal of the principles of an open society.

Bovard, however, in addition to being a fine writer, has not allowed the mess in Washington to plunge him into pessimism. He can still see the humor in much of the mayhem, goofiness and outright stupidity that characterizes so much of government bureaucracy.

His tactic is to quote Bush or Bush's step-and-fetchers and then simply point out the great gap between what Bush and his people say and what the facts are. These gaps are so many and so deep that one can fairly conclude that nothing Bush ever says should be taken at face value.

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[struggle4progress]

7. This is nice:

<snip> Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney might fairly be called reactionaries, but they are not conservatives in the traditional sense of that word. Being a big spender, a despoiler of the environment, a fearmonger, an ally-alienator, a reckless warmonger and an imperialist does not qualify for the title "conservative." <snip>


I have wondered much, in recent years, why the Repub brand of "conservatism" has, for several decades, dismissed the conservationist ethics so dear to the Goldwater crowd. As an outsider, I can only speculate about how extremists hijacked the GOP.

[The empressof all]

4. Only because I am sometimes a shallow and tasteless individual

I am waiting for the Kitty Kelly book with baited breathe

[wryter2000]

18. Me, too

I hate myself for giving Kitty Kelly money. But I figure the only thing that will dislodge the "family values" vote from this sleazoid is the sort of sexual scandal that Kelly will likely uncover.

[Pathwalker]

5. I had a FIT at the local B&N earlier this week!

They had that phony Dr. Laura's book in prominent display, and I let the employee know just what I thought about her. Apparently they have a new (right-wing) manager, and the right's books were EVERYWHERE! I saw one lady who listened to my tirade put back her book! We left, telling him we were taking our business elsewhere. Okay, so we only spend about $400.00 a month there, so I'm sure they don't care - but several customers agreed with me, and also complained about the new slant to the right. As we left, others were too!!!

[Zan_of_Texas]

6. My two favorites this year

1. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic, by Chalmers Johnson

2. American Dynasty by Kevin Phillips

Honorable Mention:

We the People: A Call to Take Back America by Thom Hartmann

Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species by Laura Flanders

Cronies: Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas, America's Superstate, by Robert Bryce

[Zan_of_Texas]

9. More on the way

One I know of - about the most powerful US congressman. This man brought sterling credentials to his public service -- he was formerly an exterminator. (No, I'm not kidding.)

The Hammer: Tom Delay, God, Money and the United States Congress, by Lou Dubose

due out in late September

[bleedingheart]

8. Anj! My hero...

gardening and standing up for your rights!!!

[Pathwalker]

10. HI Bleedinheart! How ya doin'?

Haven't heard from you in forever! How does your garden grow? I'm making peach cobbler tonight w/ our own home grown peaches!!
You know me & my mouth...I was SOO mad!

[bleedingheart]

11. Oh the garden is growing and so are my munchkins

I am just taking a break and back out I go...

I have so much stuff to do that my head is swimming!

I picked black raspberries as big as a quarter from my sister's bushes (she is out of town)...ate em just plain with the kids.

I didn't do too many edibles this year except for herbs...just too busy with politics.

[calimary]

14. GREAT job!

You should follow it up with a letter to the store, and maybe to Barnes & Noble corporate.

[SoCalDem]

12. When people cannot get news , they are willing to PAY for it

Ain't capitalism grand?? The airways that we give away ...in order to be "informed" are totally polluted with Laci, Scott, Kobe, Martha, sharks, and other C R A P , so there is no time for REAL happenings...IMPORTANT stuff...like the survival of democracy..

Reporters and newsies whop are NOT getting their stories told in the news, are now resorting to turning their information in to MORE money for themselves...in book form..

People are hungry for news, so we will buy the books..

High-dollar people are drawing a big-buck salary from their conglomerate bosses...to report drivel...and they are "saving" the real news..ther important stuff to SELL to us in book form..

We ARE getting the information, but it must be paid for TWICE..


People like us who can afford to buy the books are probably the ones who need the information the least :(.. That's the downside..


There is a HUGE segment of America who don't have the money...and who probably don't even realize that important things are being withheld from them..


So.... Buy those books, but when you are done, don't put it on a shelf.. Pass it on to someone who "needs" it :)

[Bozita]

13. Remember to vote on the story

at the bottom

[PlanetBev]

15. Anybody know when the Kitty Kelly book is due out?

Is it September or October? Hopefully, September, so there's time to do some big damage with it.

[TXDemGal]

17. Miss_B, its release date is Sept. 14th

See the Amazon link in my post below.

[PlanetBev]

20. Thanks, Cheryl

Six weeks before the election is enough time do put an extra hurt on these crimminals.

[TXDemGal]

16. Personally, I'm eagerly awaiting the Kitty Kelley expose

on the Bush Family Syndicate! It's supposed to be released next month:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385503245/qid=1091907397/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-0710060-9261524?v=glance&s=books

[seafan]

19. Don't forget Bob Graham's book coming out next month.

Intelligence Matters, due out early September.



B-)

[jburton]

21. Waiting lists galore at the library.

I've used the reserve system at the library more in the past year than ever! It's the only way to get the good stuff -- people are just snapping everything up.

My latest loan is Molly Ivins' new book, which is "non-renewable", meaning there's a waiting list for it.

[Hamlette]

22. Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

by Seymour Hersh due out 9-13. I wonder if he's waiting until his book comes out to make the allegations about child rape.

I'll be buying that one!

[Tarheelhombre]

23. Great, I was just wondering

What happened to the anti-Bush books which were so popular last fall until spring.

[realFedUp]

24. Easy money

So much info out there to match the outrage dollars.