The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government [Paperback]

Gary Groth (Author), Mack White (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 28, 2005

Some of the medium's best practitioners take on the Bush Administration just in time for the election in this outraged work of comics journalism.

The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government is an historical account of the high crimes and misdemeanors of the presidential administration of George W. Bush, as told by an international assemblage of world-class cartoonists. This fact-based, impeccably researched work of comics journalism chronicles the Bush administration in the context of the Bush family dynasty that spawned it. Topics include:

• The Nazi connections of the president's grandfather, Prescott Bush;
• The Bush family's membership in Yale's Skull and Bones Society;
• Former President George Bush's connections to the CIA, the Mafia, and Big Oil;
• His involvement in the October Surprise and Iran Contra scandals;
• The Bush family's strange relationship with the family of John Hinckley (the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan);
• The Panama Deception;
• The Persian Gulf War;
• The suspicious business practices of his Bush sons, particularly with regard to the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980s;
• Young George W. Bush, his troubles with the law, his AWOL military record;
• George W.'s governorship of Texas;
• The electoral fraud of 2000 that resulted in his presidency;
• Unanswered questions about the terror attacks of September 11;
• The administration's "War on Terror" and its erosion of civil liberties under the Patriot Act and proposed Victory Act;
• The oil-based motives behind the Iraq War and how the public was deceived into supporting the war;
• The administration's shameful record on energy and the environment; and much more.

Also included are profiles of the key players in the current administration, a rogues gallery including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Condoleezza Rice, and Karl Rove.

Contributors to this historic comics documentary include: Alejandro Alvarez, Jaime Crespo, Kim Deitch, Jeremy Eaton, Bill Griffith, Scott Gilbert, Albo Helm, Ted Jouflas, Mark Landman, Carol Lay, Scott Marshall, Paul Mavrides, David Paleo Nunes, Ethan Persoff, Aleksandar Zograf, Larry Rodman, Spain Rodriguez, Marcel Ruyters, Kenneth Smith, Carol Swain, Seth Tobocman, Penny Van Horn, Mack White, and others.

This book distills all the known facts of the Bush regimes criminality in a journalistically accurate, artistically stylish, and utterly hilarious collection.

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About the Author

Gary Groth is the co-founder of Fantagraphics Books and The Comics Journal. Mack White is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in The Comics Journal, Snake Eyes, and Villa of the Mysteries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books; 1st Fantagraphics Books Ed edition (September 28, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560976128
• ISBN-13: 978-1560976127
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,197,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A sobering, cutting edge look at unadulterated walking evil, September 28, 2004

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W. Perry Aggers (Avon Lake, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government (Paperback)

Kind of along the lines of "The Big Book of Scandal", only focused on one subject, "The Bush Junta" pulls no punches in dissecting a perilously evil cabal of chickenhawks commonly known as Bush's Cabinet.

Hilariously illustrated by such artistic geniuses as Ted Rall, Scott Marshall, Ethan Persoff, the late, great Hack Smith and others, "Junta" chronologically deflowers arguably the most villainous political monarchy of modern times; starting with the infamous Prescott Bush/Nazi connection. It moves on to the Skull & Bones years and then in one of the most chilling chapters, pulls the wool off of GHWB's incredibly corrupt CIA tenure.

More disgusting and very true tales of deceit, corruption and flagrant neo-fascism follow, from the warwhores of the dying-empire stenched PNAC; the collection of shady reptiles known as the Carlyle Group; John Ashcroft's suppressive and incredibly bigoted years as Missouri's attorney general and governor; the megalomaniac warmonger and former Saddam cigar-buddy Donald Rumsfeld; Condoleeza Rice, the supposed genius who ignored a ton of pretty damning intelligence reports that could have thwarted 9-11; and finally, the chief snake and puppetbastard of them all - Dick Cheney.

It's no secret or suprise that the key players of the Idiot-in-Chief's cabinet got their start or influence with the Nixon Administration. Most of the information presented here is probably not new to those that follow underground radio and internet sites. But for those who think the . . . er . . . "liberal media" (meaning, Faux News, which is about as liberal as your average John Birch member, GE-owned NBC, Disney-owned ABC, Viacom-parented CBS and CNN, which has turned into "Faux Jr." (rolls eyes)) is the be-all, end-all of truth and fairness; for those who are open-minded and won't brush this off as "more commie libtard lies" (it's backed by hundreds of footnotes, statements, excerpts, links and direct quotes, BTW), this will be a blow to the stomach like no other.

At the very least, "The Bush Junta" will make you seriously question why this administration isn't telling you everything you need to know, why the biased cookie-cutter cable media will not call them on the issues that they have failed so miserably at and why you ever trusted your government in the first place.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An anthology of 25 cartoonists who lampoon the Bush dynasty, November 8, 2004

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government (Paperback)

The Bush Junta is an anthology of 25 cartoonists who lampoon the Bush dynasty. Made all the more biting from its heavy reliance on literal fact, these stinging, wordy black-and-white parodies candidly reveal the records, actions, and foibles of the GOP with razor-keen wit and no-holds-barred cynicism. A series of bumper-sticker flyers that can be reproduced and distributed enhances this timely and critical attack on alleged abuses of govermental power, among other presidential, political, and personal failings.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative art, May 25, 2010

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J. Almanza Jr. "LDragen" (Santa ana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government (Paperback)

This book was one of those books that comes out every 10 years or so to blow the cobwebs off our minds(in my humble opinion)This book exposes the criminal element behind one of the most powerful political family dynasties ever to rise in America. Loved by the ignoramus of America and hated by the insightful patriot this book is filled with citations and events that were missed in the public consciousness at the time. the events put in the book puts so many things in perspective it's difficult not to ignore the facts being thrown at your face. This book will make you hate the Bush Family and his team of rag tag neo cons even more if you already hated them in the first place. From Prescott Bush providing money to Hitler's war machine to W's war machine that eeriely resembles Hitler's war machine, the Bush Junta should be read with an open, objective, mind. Any neo con loving Americans head will explode when they read this great book composed by Mister Mack White and Company. Prepare yourself for the ultimate ride