Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Ivins's mordant wit, political passion and uninhibited energy are unique among political writers and translate into entertaining reading for anti-Bushites." Publishers Weekly
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"Bushwhacked, without a doubt, will prove itself one of the most important books of the year." Chicago Sun-Times
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"Dubose and the razor-tongued Ivins have done their homework, offering a well-researched, comprehensive examination of the dark side of the Bush administration's agenda, served up with enough saucy language and humor to make it an entertaining read." Rocky Mountian News
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"[T]he writing...is pure Ivins, frank and funny and eminently readable." Ilene Cooper, Booklist
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"The book overflows with anecdotes about hard-working Americans...injured by Bush's policies. Bolstered by facts and figures, it skillfully summarizes the case against Bush." David Grenberg, The Washington Post
Synopsis
Ivins and Dubose take the wire brush to the Bush presidency and show how they believe he has applied the same flawed strategies he used in governing Texas to running the largest superpower in the world.
About the Author
Molly Ivins’s column is syndicated to more than three hundred newspapers from Anchorage to Miami. A three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, she is the former co-editor of
The Texas Observer and the former Rocky Mountain bureau chief for
The New York Times. Her freelance work has appeared in
Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, and other publications. She has a B.A. from Smith College and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. Her first book,
Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?, spent more than twelve months on the
New York Times bestseller list.
Lou Dubose has worked as a journalist in Texas for twenty years. He has been editor of The Texas Observer and politics editor of The Austin Chronicle, and is the co-author of Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush. His freelance work has appeared in The Nation, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, the Toronto Globe and Mail, the Liberty, Texas, Vindicator, and other publications. He is currently working on a book about Tom Delay. He lives with his wife, Jeanne Goka, in Austin.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Aloha, Harken 3
2 Julia Jeffcoat's Jobless Recovery 20
3 Class War 31
4 The Blues in Belzoni 50
5 Leave No Child Behind 72
6 Green Rabbits and Yellow Streams 97
7 Kill the Messenger 112
8 Ready to Eat? 125
9 Dick, Dubya, and Wyoming Methane 152
10 Warm in the White House 175
11 The United States of Enron 184
12 Army Surplus: Two Veterans at Enron 204
13 God in the White House 214
14 Dubya Bush's Bench 228
15 Shrub II: The Empire Strikes Back 248
16 State of the Union 276
17 What Is to Be Done? 293
Acknowledgments 307
Sources 309
Index 333