Political Books
Inside the Kingdomby Carmen Bin Laden
Swiss-born Carmen fell in love with Yeslam bin Ladin, Osama's older brother; after a fairy-tale courtship, including a semester together at USC, the two married in Saudi Arabia...Rated by Depresident: | • • • • • |
House of Bush, House of Saud
by Craig Unger
The perilous ramifications of the September 11 attacks on the United States are only now beginning to unfold. They will undoubtedly be felt for generations to come. This is one of many sad conclusions readers will draw from Craig Unger's exceptional book House of Bush House of Saud.Rated by Depresident: | • • • • • |
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by Michael Moore
Michael Moore's screed against "Thief-in-Chief" George Bush's power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication. Why? It is as fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion...Rated by Depresident: | • • • • |
Lies and the Lying Liars..
by Al Franken.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who tell Them. Having previously dissected the factual inaccuracies of a single bellicose talk show host in Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken takes his fight to a larger foe: President George W. Bush, the Bush Administration, Ann Coulter and Bill OReilly.Rated by Depresident: | • • • • • |
Dude, where's my country
by Michael Moore
The people of the United States, according to author Michael Moore, have been hoodwinked. Tricked, he says, by Republican lawmakers and their wealthy corporate pals who use a combination of concocted bogeymen and lies to stay rich and in...Rated by Depresident: | • • • |
Bush at War
by Bob Woodward
Bush at War focuses on the three months following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, during which the U.S. prepared for war in Afghanistan, took steps toward a preemptive strike against Iraq, intensified homeland defense, and began a well-funded CIA covert war against terrorism around the...Rated by Depresident: | • • • • • |
Bushwhacked
by Molly Ivins
She tried to warn us: With the publication of Shrub in early 2000, syndicated columnist Molly Ivins detailed George W. Bush's privileged rise and disastrous reign as governor of Texas in the mid- to late 1990s. In Bushwhacked, she looks at his first term as president..Rated by Depresident: | • • • • • |
Media control
by Noam Chomsky
"Propaganda," says Noam Chomsky, "is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state"--in other words, the means by which leaders keep the masses in line. In this slim pamphlet, he looks at American propaganda efforts, from the warmongering of Woodrow Wilson to the creation of popular...Rated by Depresident: | • • • • |
