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Newsbreaking and controversial -- an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud and explains its impact on American foreign policy, business, and national security.
House of Bush, House of Saud begins with a politically explosive question: How is it that two days after 9/11, when U.S. air traffic was tightly restricted, 140 Saudis, many immediate kin to Osama Bin Laden, were permitted to leave the country without being questioned by U.S. intelligence?
The answer lies in a hidden relationship that began in the 1970s, when the oil-rich House of Saud began courting American politicians in a bid for military protection, influence, and investment opportunity. With the Bush family, the Saudis hit a gusher -- direct access to presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. To trace the amazing weave of Saud- Bush connections, Unger interviewed three former directors of the CIA, top Saudi and Israeli intelligence officials, and more than one hundred other sources. His access to major players is unparalleled and often exclusive -- including executives at the Carlyle Group, the giant investment firm where the House of Bush and the House of Saud each has a major stake.
Like Bob Woodward's The Veil, Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud features unprecedented reportage; like Michael Moore's Dude, Where's My Country? Unger's book offers a political counter-narrative to official explanations; this deeply sourced account has already been cited by Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer, and sets 9/11, the two Gulf Wars, and the ongoing Middle East crisis in a new context: What really happened when America's most powerful political family became seduced by its Saudi counterparts?

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Michael Moore, Director of Fahrenheit 9/11 Craig Unger has done America and the world a huge favor by clearly and precisely documenting how the Bush inner circle is in the very deep pockets of the brutal Saudi dictators.

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About the Author

Craig Unger is the author of the New York Times bestselling House of Bush, House of Saud. He appears frequently as an analyst on CNN, the ABC Radio Network, and other broadcast outlets. The former deputy editor of TheNew York Observer and editor-in-chief of Boston Magazine, he has written about George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush for TheNew Yorker, Esquire, and Vanity Fair. He lives in New York City.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner; 1st Scribner Tppbk Ed., 1st Print edition (October 5, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0743253396
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743253390
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.98 x 8.44 inches

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- #328 in Political Reference
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- #1,316 in Terrorism (Books)

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Craig Unger is the New York Times bestselling author of House of Trump, House of Putin; House of Bush, House of Saud, and other books. The former editor in chief of Boston Magazine, he has written for New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Esquire, among many other publications, and has been a longtime contributing editor of Vanity Fair magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, he has appeared as an analyst on dozens of broadcast outlets as well as Michael Moore's documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, and Jack Bryan's Active Measures. He lives in New York City. House of Trump, House of Putin is his fourth book on the Republican Party's war against democracy.

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staypuftman

How Do You Spell Corruption?

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2014

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This book will test you. When you wonder aloud why Congress doesn’t get anything done, foreign wars continue without reason and deficits are so high, most are unable to see the cause. Unger doesn’t explain it all but he explains the relationship between money and power better than any book I’ve read to date.

The storyline of the book takes you through how the rich Saudi ruling class and really a group of Texan oilmen bonded over business. When you read about the genesis of the relationship in the 70s during the first part of the book, it looked merely like the cozy insider-only type of stuff that is common in the fabric of corporate America and most human relationships.

But the nuance Unger uncovers with his hawk-like ability to pull minutiae from rivers of source material outlines a darker agenda. His fact finding mission lays bare a Saudi elite trying to nudge the levers of power in Washington. And with this insight, Unger explains the nearly invisible pattern in which money buys powers in America. Unger’s work uncovers so many conspicuous connections amongst so many smart, ambitious men that coincidence is ruled out as the cause. Complicity makes the case here as well as any outsider like Unger can.

But the circumstantial nature of this book cannot be completely swept away. Unger has grokked the nefarious nature of this relationship but is missing the proverbial smoking gun. There is no ipso facto ‘A funded B which lead to C relationship’ outlined in the book. The closest we get to this as a reader is when the Bin Laden family and other Saudi royals are ferried out of the country while the FAA has all airspace on lockdown, a fascinating story that makes the TSA’s security theatre we endure at every airport comically irksome.

Recommending this book is easy, but to whom I would make that recommendation is difficult. If you sometimes watch/read the news with an open mind and wonder, “How did we get to this place?”, then I’d put this book on your list. If you’re knowledge of the middle east and current events is low, try paying attention to that news first, watch for the patterns and then read this to learn the connections. Most importantly though, any citizen trying to understand the ways in which money buys power in the modern nation-state needs to read this book.

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Raphael Bruckner

The 28 pgs revealed........

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2016

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This book contains all the information that one would need to put together the information contain in the 28 pages of classified material the Government is not releasing. It also connects the dots in respect too the Saudi's involvment in 9/11......and show how the relationship between the Bushes and Saudi Arabia influenced American Policy and got the Bushes and their cohorts very rich......and to not disturb that relationship after 9/11 how the Bushes ran interference...... A very reveling read....and an important book

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A Must Read

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2013

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I read this book with a growing sense of amazement. I cannot understand how this book did not create an absolute firestorm of controversy, considering the damning, but exhaustively researched revelations it contains. The relationship between the Bush family and the house of Saud, and how it led to our being "blindsided" by 9/11, yes, that scared me. But more than that was that this book was released in 2004. It should by now be required reading and its conclusions unassailable. Yet, nine years later, I only heard about it through happenstance and I somehow have the feeling that is not an accident.

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jg852

Deep Intriguing Dive into US-Saudi Relations

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2019

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If the subject matter is not of interest to you, don’t bother...the book can be meandering at times, with an excess of facts and details that will bore the laymen. But, anyone that is fond of this topic, it is uber interesting! Will leave you shocked and appalled.

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2017

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Incredible information, necessary reading to understand our country

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Babs C

Excellent read

Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2014

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After reading the jaw dropping book "Family of Secrets-America's Invisible Government" by Russell Baker, I was compelled to read this book, House of Bush, House of Saud. It brings you deeper into the web of interdependence that was created by these two families and the resulting disastrous effects their game brought to this world.

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Judith B. Hastings

An eye opener

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2012

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This book made me want to read all the rest of his work. In fact, I got a Kindle just so I could read them in digital form. There are connections that made me squirm such as the Bohemian Grove and other right wing organizations. The transition from George H. W. Bush to George W. Bush is also enlightening. For example, not marching on Baghdad after the Gulf War was a source of pride for Bush41. For Bush43 it was a humiliating failure. Don't miss any book by this author.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2019

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