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Laddar... 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 Futureav Craig Unger
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. The cover of The Fall of the House Bush with its pictures of the president in various poses & the sub-title, "The untold story of how a band of true believers seized the executive branch, started the Iraq war, and still imperils America's future" sound like a blurb from the cover of the National Inquirer, promising spicey revelations & the unearthing of secret documents & numerous conjecture about a "hidden agenda". Instead, The Fall of the House ob Bush contains no scandulous revealations. Mr. Unger gives the reader a carefully documented history (with 60 pages of end-notes & biogtaphy) of events that anyone who reads a daily newspaper or watches TV news is already familiar with. What he also does, is gives of a thhourough background that lead to these events, again, fact with which we may be familiar, but listed in an orderly time-table that makes theeir conclusion easy for anyone to understand. For example, In his coverage of the struggle for the establishment of the nation of Israel Mr. Unger takes us back to God's covenent with Abraham, the Patriarch respected by Jewish, Christians & Moslems. He also gives brief histories of the area before the invention of the internal combustion engine made it such a vital factor in the economies of industrialized nations. He exolains the British division of the area that once made up the Ottoman empire which was defeated in WW1 & explains how those divisions were certain to produce tensions in the region. In the US, he shows the rise of the neo-conversatives & the "religous right" by comparing the settling of New England by the Puritans with the more open Church of England & Quaker colonies & the writers of the constitution, men of the enlightment & the displaced Scots-Irish who first crossed the Appalachians & fought the native tribes & did the actual "settling" of tis land. Another important comparison is between the personalities of George H.W. Bush (#41) & son George W. Bush (43). Their different outlook in matters of national destiny are explained as we are given a brief biography of President Bush & how he became a "Born again Christian" & what exactly that means to the destiny of the United States. He also gives portrayals of Dick cheney & other officials who have taken part in what he calls the "failed foreign policy" of the war in Iraq. This book is loaded with background information which is easy to understand to the average reader & is important to determining the direction our nation should take in the coming year. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
An exposé of the secret relationship between neo-conservative policy makers and the Christian right argues that Middle East instability reflects on ongoing battle between fundamentalist groups, in an account that cites Bush's role in promoting the war in Iraq. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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