The
crucial presidential election seemed to dominate the entire year: it generated
streams of philippics, from left and right, all seeming to blur into each other
after awhile. Many have examined the Bush administration and its policies from
a surprising divergence of angles. But Richard Clarke's insider political
memoir
Against All
Enemies proved to be one of the most compellingly
readable--quite apart from its immensely controversial impact--and tops our
list of best
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Amazon.com Review Few political memoirs have made such a dramatic entrance as that by Richard A. Clarke. During the week of the initial publication of ...
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Amazon.com Review While campaigning for president in 2000, George W. Bush downplayed his lack of foreign policy experience by emphasizing that he would surround himself with a highly talented and experienced group of political veterans. This core group, consisting of Donald...
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Amazon.com Review More than a decade after presidential candidate Bill Clinton floated the idea of ending "welfare as we know it," the changes to the system have become so accepted and entrenched that it is difficult to remember the heated controversy surrounding the issue ...
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Amazon.com Review The most facile presidential comparison one could make for George W. Bush would be his father, who presided over a war in Iraq and a struggling economy. Some "neocons" reject the parallel and compare Bush to his father's predecessor, Ronald Reagan, citing ...
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Amazon.com Review Although the George W. Bush administration is famous for being "on message," delivering a consistent and polished political perspective no matter what, such consistency apparently does not extend to every member of the conservative universe. In ...
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Amazon.com Review Paraphrasing a passage from Machiavelli's The Prince, Kevin Phillips writes, "a ruler can ignore the mob and devote himself to the interests of the ruling class, gulling the inert majority who constitute the ruled." He then says, "Borgia references aside, 21st-century American readers of The Prince may feel that ...
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Amazon.com Review It's no shock that an American president would employ skilled PR pros to carefully hone a message that makes the administration's objectives more palatable to the general public. It's a tradition that dates back decades. But it's another matter entirely to...
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Amazon.com Review L.A. Weekly editor/columnist John Powers surveys the landscape of George W. Bush's America and finds it littered with frothing liberals, sneering conservatives, sluggish reporters, and mindless commentators. From reality TV to the "embedded media," Powers dissects the post-9/11 milieu with something bordering on glee. Brooks can't help but be ...
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Amazon.com Review The 2003 American invasion of Iraq was contentious, not just in the arena of global public opinion, but within the tight-lipped world of the George W. Bush White House. As Bob Woodward reveals in ...
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