How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime

ISBN-13: 9780691128887 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 416 str.

Sidney Blumenthal

Opis

In a series of columns and essays that renowned journalist and former presidential adviser Sidney Blumenthal wrote in the three years following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a unifying theme began to emerge: that Bush, billed by himself and by many others as a conservative, is in fact a radical--more radical than any president in American history. In How Bush Rules, Blumenthal provides a trenchant and vivid account of the progression of Bush's radical style--from his reliance on one-party rule and his unwillingness to allow internal debate to his elevation of the power of the vice president. Taking readers through pivotal events such as the hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the rise of the foreign-policy neoconservatives, Abu Ghraib, the war on science, the Jack Abramoff scandal, and the catastrophic mishandling of Hurricane Katrina, the book tracks a consistent policy that calls for the president to have complete authority over independent federal agencies and to remain unbound by congressional oversight or even the law. In an incisive and powerful introduction, Blumenthal argues that these radical actions are not haphazard, but deliberately intended to fundamentally change the presidency and the government. He shows not only the historical precedents for radical governing, but also how Bush has taken his methods to unique extremes. With its penetrating account of a critical new era in American leadership, How Bush Rules is a devastating appraisal of the Bush presidency.

O autorze

Sidney Blumenthal war von 1997 bis 2001 Chefberater von US-Präsident Bill Clinton. Zuvor schrieb der bekannte Publizist für die Washington Post und den New Yorker. Er veröffentlichte mehrere Bücher, darunter "The permanent Campaign" und "Pledging Allegiance". Er lebt mit seiner Familie in Washington, D.C.