The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's FutureSimon and Schuster, 2007 M11 13 - 437 pages The presidency of George W. Bush has led to the worst foreign policy decision in the history of the United States -- the bloody, unwinnable war in Iraq. How did this happen? Bush's fateful decision was rooted in events that began decades ago, and until now this story has never been fully told.
From Craig Unger, the author of the bestseller House of Bush, House of Saud, comes a comprehensive, deeply sourced, and chilling account of the secret relationship between neoconservative policy makers and the Christian Right, and how they assaulted the most vital safeguards of America's constitutional democracy while pushing the country into the catastrophic quagmire in the Middle East that is getting worse day by day.
Among the powerful revelations in this book:
A seasoned, award-winning investigative reporter connected to many back-channel political and intelligence sources, Craig Unger knows how to get the big story -- and this one is his most explosive yet. Through scores of interviews with figures in the Christian Right, the neoconservative movement, the Bush administration, and sources close to the Bush family, as well as intelligence agents in the CIA, the Pentagon, and Israel, Unger shows how the Bush administration's certainty that it could bend history to its will has carried America into the disastrous war in Iraq, dooming Bush's presidency to failure and costing America thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. Far from ensuring our security, the Iraq War will be seen as a great strategic pivot point in history that could ignite wider war in the Middle East, particularly in Iran.
Provocative, timely, and disturbing, The Fall of the House of Bush stands as the most comprehensive and dramatic account of how and why George W. Bush took America to war in Iraq. |
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Contents
Oedipus Tex | 1 |
Redeemer Nation | 15 |
Birth of the Neocons | 35 |
The Foreshadowing | 47 |
Into the Fray | 63 |
The Prodigal Son | 79 |
The Age of Unreason | 99 |
First Son | 119 |
Cheneys Gambit | 195 |
In the Shadows | 215 |
Fear The Marketing Campaign | 245 |
The Good Soldier | 273 |
Season of Mirth | 297 |
An Angel Directs the Storm | 325 |
Acknowledgments | 353 |
Notes | 357 |
The Righteous Assassin | 131 |
Ripe for the Plucking | 145 |
Dog Whistle Politics | 159 |
Grandmaster Cheney | 181 |
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