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Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order Hardcover – August 1, 2004

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  • Hardcover: 343 pages
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition (August 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0393059170
  • ISBN-13: 978-0393059175
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsInteresting twist on the battle of "hate" vs. "dissent"
By Mike Hill on September 17, 2004
Format: Hardcover
First of all, let me lay my cards on the table. I am a social liberal and a registered democrat, thus any conservative heart to heart on this book is lost in my analysis. Although, I did, amazingly, embark upon this book with an, how do I say, open mind to George W. Bush's leadership. To the meat of the review; I found Professor Miller's book on Bush/Cheney's New World Order fascinating and enlightening. I particulary enjoyed the comparison of President Clinton with current President Bush. The outlash against President Clinton, according to Miller, was a bit excess in comparison to the virtual silence of the press concerning G.W.'s unstatesmanlike antics. If Professor Miller is correct in his observations and factual analysis, then I fear for the direction of our great country. I only hope his use of this book is to offer a stump speech to his coalition of liberal backers, more so than it is an accurate account of our time at hand. Unfortunately, I would have to go with the latter. To offer dissent is patriotic; which, according to Professor Miller, G.W. does not tolerate well. Seemingly, Professor Miller is highly accurate in his studies and highly correct in his regurgitations of prominent news articles, albeit the small amount of press that G.W. has generated in his 4 years in office. I would recommend this book to anyone concerned about the direction of our great democracy and the future under George W. Bush or to anyone who would enjoy an excellent structured political argument against Mr. Bush.
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4.0 out of 5 starsNow more than ever...
By David A. Bede on November 28, 2004
Format: Hardcover
So, do you really need another anti-Bush book in your collection? Even if Kerry had won the election, the answer would be yes. Miller's bleak thesis reaches well beyond George And Dick's Excellent Adventure, into a future of across the board right-wing dominance that we can expect to continue until progressives begin fighting back effectively. The first step is to appreciate just how one-sided the debate is in America today, and although Miller's book can be downright infurating in that respect, it gets the job done.

Miller does a great job of illustrating the distinction between Republican rhetoric about honor, decency and "values" and the reality of 30 years of win-at-all-costs politicking, rife with character assassinations and demagoguery. He also makes a more than convincing case that the media, with its increasingly clear conservative bias, has been complicit in allowing their hypocrisy to succeed for so long. In the most unique part of Miller's assessment, he drives it all home with an analysis of Bill Clinton's record in office and that of his right-wing detractors.

He argues along the way that the right's vilification of Clinton amounted to their projection of their own dark sides onto a politically expedient target. Appropriately, Miller refers to Clinton, the mushy-middle president of reality, and "Clinton," the viciously unethical left-wing radical so often depicted in the media, as two all but completely different entities. Indeed, it is remarkable how many of the false accusations against Clinton have proven to be true of Bush, with no apparent political fallout resulting for the latter; Miller's list is probably incomplete, but it more than makes his point.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe whole picture
By Nspector on September 9, 2004
Format: Hardcover
I like the way Mark Crispin Miller writes. I couldn't

put down "The Bush Dyslexicon" after I bought it, and

"Cruel and Unusual" is even better. We have been

inundated, for many good reasons, with anti-Bush books

in the last few years, but a few of them, however

well-intentioned and well-researched, are simply too

maddening to read. I bought "The Best Democracy Money

Can Buy" by Greg Palast and even though he is a great

reporter whose work anyone interested in marginalized

news stories should read, his journalistic style and

the litany of past crimes he details made me feel

helpless and angry and made the book difficult to read

in its entirety. "Cruel and Unusual," however

terrifying its conclusions, is, on the other hand,

empowering. As I read it I felt like I was coming

across my own thoughts and feelings articulated more

powerfully than I might have done. I recommend it to

anyone on the left looking for a book about the whole

picture - civil rights issues, the Iraq war,

terrorism, religion, Bush's personality, as well as

the origins and workings of the mechanisms that

undergird the current administration.

All political books preach to the choir, but only a

few move the choir to sing in such a way that draws

others to the song. This is such a book. Don't try to

get your conservative Republican brother-in-law to

read it. Just buy it yourself, read it, and tell your

conservative Republican brother-in-law the things that

the Bush administration is doing to his country while

betraying his trust.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA must-read book
By K.C. Cave on September 10, 2004
Format: Hardcover
Crestfallen over the upcoming election? Bummed out because there's no anti-war candidate to pull the lever for? Feeling . . . disenfranchised?

Cheer up. This new book will make you feel positively giddy about trooping to the polls Nov. 3 and voting Democratic.

With hardly a mention of the disheatening John Kerry, media critic Mark Crispin Miller has penned a book that will fire up your enthusiasm for the dreary Dem--or, for that matter, anyone to the left of the ayatollahs or Jerry Falwell.

Yes, the prospect of a second Bush term is that bad, the NYU professor writes.

"Our unprecedented problem is that Bush & Co. is intent not just on fortifying the presidency, as did, say, FDR," Miller writes. "The regime's goal is to abort American democracy and to impose on the United States another kind of government entirely."

To put it another way: For all his considerable faults, at least John Kerry won't ditch the Constitution.

At a recent booksigning, Miller put the election in perspective: "I'll be happy if we come out of this with the right to free speech and free assembly."

You can't say you weren't warned after reading this compelling book by one of our leading intellectuals.
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