 | A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency by Glenn Greenwald
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $3.33 Perhaps a fitting epitaph for the Bush administration: A Tragic Legacy.
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 | Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 by Thomas E. Ricks
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.89 Iraq... an 800 pound gorilla in the center of the room behaving badly.
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 | Mission Unaccomplished: TomDispatch Interviews with American Iconoclasts and Dissenters by Tom Engelhardt
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $0.57 Interviews by Tom Engelhardt with Howard Zinn, Cindy Sheehan, etc. on a variety of topics.
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 | Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential by James Moore
Buy new: $17.12 / Used from: $0.20 Turd Blossom... a rather odd nick name for the administration's architect.
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 | Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America by Molly Ivins
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.01 Published in 2003. In late January 2009, George W once again has plenty of time for cutting brush in Crawford, Texas.
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 | Frontline: Bush's War
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $12.85 A good place to start. Includes all the main players. Watch online at pbs.org, lots of associated material is also available on the pbs website.
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 | All the President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media, and the Truth by Ben Fritz
Buy new: $20.65 / Used from: $0.01 And you thought Bill Clinton was cutting it fine with "it depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is".
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 | The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder by Mark Crispin Miller
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $0.01 Quote: "It's not the way America is all about." End quote.
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 | Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard Clarke
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $0.01 We'll smoke 'em out of their holes.
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 | Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman
Buy new: $17.61 / Used from: $1.54 VP Cheney... the right hand of the administration.
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 | Frontline: The Dark Side
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $15.50 Frontline... bringing the dark side into the light.
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 | Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.99 Hubris: excessive pride or self-confidence; arrogance. (from Dictionary.com)
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 | Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government by Valerie Plame Wilson
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 Niger, yellowcake, outing a CIA agent... WTF ? !
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 | At the Center of the Storm: The CIA During America's Time of Crisis by George Tenet
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.32 George Tenet's side of the story.
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 | Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy by Andrew Cockburn
Buy new: $20.75 / Used from: $0.01 The enforcer, largely responsible for the war in Iraq and how it was conducted.
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 | The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $0.99 To fight evil, you must become evil.
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 | Fahrenheit 9/11
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.99 Like it or not, Moore touched a nerve with this film. It's a B-grade documentary with superb composition.
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 | The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney
Buy used from: $4.32 Our last scientifically literate president was Thomas Jefferson.
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 | Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell (Vintage) by Karen DeYoung
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $4.77 A significant casualty of the Bush administration... got railroaded on more than one occasion.
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 | Laura Bush: An Intimate Portrait of the First Lady by Ronald Kessler
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.49 Laura Bush... a class act.
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 | No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos by Charles Ferguson
Buy used from: $2.69 Decisions that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Also on DVD.
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 | Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush by Molly Ivins
Buy new: $9.40 / Used from: $0.01 An early shot at the Main Man. Published in 2000.
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 | George W. Bushisms: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of Our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
Buy used from: $9.45 Whatever... not too funny in the absence of peace and prosperity. Only 96 pages, but only $2 on Amazon.
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 | The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy by Glenn Kessler
Buy new: $20.24 / Used from: $0.06 Condi... one of the sharpest tools in the shed, but failed to change the direction of the Iraq War vector.
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 | George W. Bush Robin Hood For The Rich: Some call you the haves and the have-mores I call you my Base, GWB October 20, 2004 by Gene Abel
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 | The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money by Dan Briody
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $3.71 Halliburton... a tangent.
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 | The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Lobbyist Jack Abramoff by Gary S. Chafetz
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $3.99 John McCain, Jack Abramoff... not too tangential.
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 | Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
Buy used from: $3.49 A significant tangent in the war on terror. Remember... the Battle of Fallujah started with the horrific killings of four Blackwater security personnel in April 2004. Never forget, some gave all.
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 | Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade by Nina Easton
Buy used from: $1.80 Section on Ralph Reed... yes, a tangent, but the Christian Right was essential to Bush victories on election day.
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 | In Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked the Bush Administration by David Iglesias
Buy new: $12.11 / Used from: $0.01 This scandal was on a slow burn. Then finally caught up with the administration.
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 | They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons by Jacob Heilbrunn
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.69 Neocons... wrong right turn.
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 | When the Levees Broke - A Requiem In Four Acts (Documentary)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $11.99 All the president's men couldn't put New Orleans back together again.
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 | The Hammer Comes Down: The Nasty, Brutish, and Shortened Political Life of Tom DeLay by Lou Dubose
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.01 Not strictly Bush material here, but it illustrates a pattern of power politics common during the W era.
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 | The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions
Buy used from: $1.54 Over 700 pages.
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 | Bush Versus the Environment by Robert S. Devine
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.01 Guess who lost?
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 | The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.73 Trying to put the facts into a context... mostly right or mostly wrong? You decide. Food for thought in any case.
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 | Rise Of The Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet by Jim Mann
Buy new: $5.05 / Used from: $2.95 The Vulcans: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz (the father of the preemption policy), Richard Armitage, and Condoleezza Rice.
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 | Fields of Honor: The Pat Tillman Story by Jonathan Rand
Buy used from: $1.98 Again, never forget... some gave all.
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 | The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 As put forth by VP Cheney: If a threat has a 1 percent probability, it must be treated as real.
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 | The World According to Tomdispatch: America In The New Age of Empire
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.99 A collection of essays by various writers.
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