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Family of secrets : the Bush dynasty, the powerful forces that put it in the White House, and what their influence means for America
- Title
- Family of secrets : the Bush dynasty, the powerful forces that put it in the White House, and what their influence means for America / Russ Baker.
- Author
- Baker, Russ, 1958-
- Publication
- New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
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- Description
- viii, 577 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Family of Secrets reveals that what most of us believe about the Bush dynasty is only a fragment of a larger reality. Indeed, the same forces that put Bush-Cheney into power are still very much at work, exerting a stealthy dominance over the mechanisms of democracy, regardless of who occupies the White House." "Russ Baker lays out in compelling detail the untold story of how a network of financiers, oilmen, and intelligence operatives shaped the political careers of the two presidents Bush - and what the Bushes did for them in return." "Drawing on hundreds of new documentary sources and exclusive interviews, Baker unveils a portrait of the Bushes as longtime servants of an elite establishment often at odds with the public interest. Baker traces their rise from the cold war intrigues of George H. W. Bush - the relentlessly secretive "Poppy," whose genteel persona obscured a lifetime of covert intelligence activities - to the ruinous impact of the dynastic heir, a George W. Bush we also see in these pages as if for the first time." "This eye-opening inquiry offers countless revelations, never before published, that challenge the conventional accounts of crucial events. These include new insights into the assassination of John F. Kennedy; startling fresh information that yields a completely new interpretation of the Watergate affair and the hidden role played in it by Poppy Bush; meticulous new reporting on W's questionable record of military service and the relentless campaign to frustrate inquiries into it; and a devastating expose of the cronyism at FEMA that led to tragedy in New Orleans. Here, too, are personal stories that have never before been uncovered - including the truth behind the religious conversion that helped turn W. into a political success."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-558) and index.
- Contents
- 1. How Did Bush Happen? -- 2. Poppy's Secret -- 3. Viva Zapata -- 4. Where Was Poppy? -- 5. Oswald's Friend -- 6. The Hit -- 7. After Camelot -- 8. Wings for W. -- 9. The Nixonian Bushes -- 10. Downing Nixon, Part I: The Setup -- 11. Downing Nixon, Part II: The Execution -- 12. In from the Cold -- 13. Poppy's Proxy and the Saudis -- 14. Poppy's Web -- 15. The Handoff -- 16. The Quacking Duck -- 17. Playing Hardball -- 18. Meet the Help -- 19. The Conversion -- 20. The Skeleton in W.'s Closet -- 21. Shock and ... Oil? -- 22. Deflection for Reelection -- 23. Domestic Disturbance -- 24. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9781596915572 (alk. paper)
- 1596915579 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008037433
- 40016299049
- OCLC
- 229029086
- ocn229029086
- SCSB-5451091
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries