How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical RegimePrinceton University Press, 2006 M08 30 - 420 pages In a series of columns and essays that renowned journalist and former presidential adviser Sidney Blumenthal wrote in the three years following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a unifying theme began to emerge: that Bush, billed by himself and by many others as a conservative, is in fact a radical--more radical than any president in American history. In How Bush Rules, Blumenthal provides a trenchant and vivid account of the progression of Bush's radical style--from his reliance on one-party rule and his unwillingness to allow internal debate to his elevation of the power of the vice president. |
Contents
The Radical President | 1 |
HUBRIS Mission Accomplished From the Victory in Iraq to the Defeat of John Kerry | 25 |
The Intelligence Wars | 27 |
Lessons in Leadership | 31 |
How George Transformed Tonys World | 34 |
The Good Soldier | 36 |
An Unlikely Dissident | 39 |
The Hunt for WMD | 41 |
The Good Soldiers Revenge | 181 |
The Incredible Shrinking President | 184 |
Damage | 189 |
Guantánamo | 192 |
The Truth about Torture | 199 |
Deep Throats Lessons | 204 |
A Broken Body | 207 |
Blinded by the Light at the End of the Tunnel | 211 |
311 Meets 911 | 44 |
The Counterterrorism Czar Comes In from the Cold | 46 |
The White House Has the Last Laugh | 48 |
The Road Map to Nowhere | 50 |
The President Goes Blank | 52 |
The Silence of Colin Powell | 54 |
Pulp Fictions | 57 |
The Secrets of Abu Ghraib | 60 |
The American Military Coup of 2012 | 63 |
The Holy Warrior | 66 |
Riding the Trojan Horse | 68 |
The Specter of Vietnam | 71 |
The Reagan Legacy | 74 |
Reagans Funeral and Clintons Portrait | 76 |
Cheneys Mask Slips | 79 |
The Senates Da Vinci Code | 82 |
Code Orange | 85 |
The Oath of True Believers | 87 |
The Rule of Chaos | 89 |
The Republican National Convention Day One | 92 |
The Republican National Convention Day Two | 95 |
The Republican National Convention Day Three | 98 |
The Republican National Convention Day Four | 100 |
Staring at Defeat | 103 |
Falls the Shadow | 106 |
The Right God | 108 |
The Lowest Grade of Ignorance | 110 |
Colin Powells Final Days | 112 |
Dedication Day | 115 |
NEMESIS I Catastrophic Success From the Death of Terry Schiavo to the Vigil of Cindy Sheehan | 117 |
Mission Misconceived | 119 |
All Hail Caligulas Horse | 122 |
Medals of Failure | 124 |
Purging Poppy | 127 |
Metrics | 129 |
Regime Change | 132 |
A Broken Force | 134 |
The March of Folly | 137 |
Spending Political Capital | 140 |
A Hireling a Fraud and a Prostitute | 143 |
The Plot against the New Deal | 145 |
Orwells Clock | 150 |
The Brilliant Career of Jack Abramoff | 153 |
A Confederacy of Shamans | 159 |
The Passion of the Culture War | 162 |
Politics under Red Robes | 166 |
The Keys of the Kingdom | 169 |
Serial Abuser | 175 |
The Last Throes | 214 |
The Supreme Chance of a Lifetime | 220 |
Roves War | 223 |
Tunnel Vision | 231 |
The Meaning of Words | 234 |
Above the Rule of Law | 238 |
The Informer | 241 |
Unhappy Holiday | 249 |
Question Time | 251 |
NEMESIS II Heck of a Job From the Landfall of Hurricane Katrina to the Revolt of the Generals | 257 |
Hurricane Katrina | 259 |
What Didnt Go Right? | 262 |
Heck of a Job | 268 |
From Gulf to Shining Gulf | 270 |
Karen Hughes Takes a Tour | 275 |
TwentyFirstCentury Republicanism | 278 |
Judy dArc | 286 |
The Conservative Revolt | 289 |
The Indictment of Scooter Libby | 292 |
Cheneys Trial | 295 |
Stab in the Back | 298 |
The Long March of Dick Cheney | 300 |
Bob Woodwards Coverup | 307 |
Condis Tortuous Trail | 310 |
The Law is King | 316 |
Annus Horribilis | 322 |
Bushs War on Professionals | 325 |
Meek Mild and Menacing | 331 |
The Republican System | 334 |
The Proconsuls Apologia | 343 |
Bushs Brezhnev Period | 345 |
The Client | 349 |
The Rules of the Game | 351 |
Cheneys Coup | 355 |
A Lincoln Portrait | 358 |
Once More unto the Breach | 362 |
Sex Police Chief Arrested | 364 |
Blood and Sand | 367 |
The Love Song of Francis Fukuyama | 372 |
Apocalypse Now | 375 |
Card Shuffle | 378 |
I DeLay | 382 |
Tethered Goats | 385 |
The President of Truth | 388 |
The Decider | 395 |
The Passion of George W Bush | 399 |
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