Synopses & Reviews
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 30 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 any reader who cares about the real world won't want to miss.
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"Dowd presents a comic-tragic look at the current Bush administration....Bush detractors will love Dowd's sharp analysis, but even his fans should acknowledge her wit." Booklist
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"Good Dowd can balance substance and sizzle and still be acidulous and funny, drawing righteous blood with tongue...in cheek..." Los Angeles Times
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"As with any assemblage of in-the-moment journalism, some of Dowd's columns hold up better than others." New York Times
Synopsis
For 30 years, Dowd has written about Washington and America in a voice that is acerbic, passionate, outraged, and incisive. Drawing upon her celebrated columns, with a new introductory essay, she now probes the topsy-turvy alternative universe of the Bush administration.
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In her first book, the celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist delivers a scorching and often scorchingly funny illumination of the Bush administration's fractured adventures in empire-building.
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The Pulitzer-winning
New York Times columnist takes on the Bush administration--now updated with new material.
For the past two decades, Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars-and her scorching wit-on the Bush dynasty. Here, she explores and dissects the entire story, in all its Oedipal, Orwellian, Shakespearean glory. Drawing from her New York Times column, she journeys to Maine, Texas, Washington, old Europe, new Europe, and Saudi Arabia, chronicling both father and son as well as the cast of characters surrounding them. For any reader who cares about America, this is essential reading. As Dowd says about Bushworld: "It's their reality. We only live and die in it."
About the Author
A Washington native, Maureen Dowd became a columnist for the New York Times op-ed page in 1995, after reporting on the Reagan, Bush I and Clinton White Houses. She is now covering her sixth presidential campaign and the second generation of Bush presidents who went to war with the same Iraqi dictator. Before becoming a columnist for the New York Times op-ed page in 1995, she wrote a column, "On Washington," for the New York Times Magazine. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for distinguished commentary for chronicling the Clinton impeachment follies, as the Times entry put it, "with style as well as insight, with faultless instinct for hypocrisy in high places."