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Bushworld: Enter At Your Own Risk
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Bushworld: Enter At Your Own Risk
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Bushworld: Enter At Your Own Risk

Written by Maureen Dowd

Narrated by Kathe Mazur

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From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old Europe and new Europe, during the past two decades Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty, putting them, as both 41 and 43 have complained to her, "on the couch." Here she wittily dissects the Oedipal loop-de-loop between father and son and the Orwellian logic of the rush to war in Iraq. It's a turbulent odyssey charting how a Shakespearean cast of regents, courtiers, and neo-con Cabalists-all with their own subterranean agendas-hijack King George II's war on terror and upend the senior Bush's cherished internationalist foreign policy and Persian Gulf coalition.

As she's written about Bushworld, "It's their reality. We just live and die in it.'"

For thirty years, Maureen Dowd has written about Washington-and America-in a voice that is acerbic, passionate, outraged, and incisive. But nothing has engaged her as powerfully as the extraordinary agendas, absurdities, and obsessions of George the Younger. Drawing upon her celebrated columns, with a new introductory essay, she probes the topsy-turvy alternative universe of a group she has made recognizable by their first names, middle initials, nicknames, or numbers-41, the Boy Emperor, Rummy, Condi, Wolfie, Uncle Dick of the Underworld, General Karl, Prince of Darkness (Richard Perle), and her own nickname from W., the Cobra-as they seek an extreme makeover of the country and the world. Bushworld is a book that any reader who cares about the real world won't want to miss.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 25, 2004
ISBN9780786551262
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Bushworld: Enter At Your Own Risk

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Good, but very repetitive. For those uninformed... HW Bush was smart but had very thin skin, especially when called a "wimp". W Bush wasn't smart and was easily led by his father and advisers (Rummy, Cheney, Rice et. al.) especially when it came to going after Saddam and "finishing the job". Perle and Wolfowicz were pure evil, the Saudis were involved up to their necks, and Colin Powell is a pretty good guy. That's basically it, told here in about a hundred reprinted New York Times articles. Read any ten at random and you've got the idea. Sad that so few people, through incompetence, greed and just plain wickedness could cause so much damage to so many people.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    If you like to laugh at Bush this is it, by a hard cord Bush basher
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    An enchanting look at just how stupid, incompetent, greedy and just plain stupid Bush, Cheney and the rest of the gang that couldn't shoot straight really were.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A collection of Ms. Dowd's columns, it functions best as an occasional read - a bathroom book, perhaps - though recent events have largely taken the humor out of book.