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. |
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Contents
PART ONE HUERIS | 25 |
Lessons in Leadership | 31 |
An Unlikely Dissident | 39 |
The Counterterrorism Czar Comes In from the Cold | 46 |
The President Goes Blank | 52 |
The Secrets of Abu Ghraib | 60 |
The Holy Warrior | 66 |
The Reagan Legacy | 74 |
The Truth about Torture | 199 |
A Broken Body | 207 |
The Last Throes | 214 |
The Supreme Chance of a Lifetime | 220 |
Tunnel Vision | 231 |
Above the Rule of Law | 238 |
Unhappy Holiday | 249 |
PART THREE NEMESIS II | 257 |
The Senates Da Vinci Code | 82 |
The Oath of True Believers | 87 |
The Republican National Convention Day Two | 95 |
Staring at Defeat | 103 |
The Lowest Grade of Ignorance | 110 |
PART TWO NEMESIS I | 117 |
Medals of Failure | 124 |
Regime Change | 132 |
Spending Political Capital | 140 |
Orwells Clock | 150 |
A Confederacy of Shamans | 159 |
Politics under Red Robes | 166 |
Serial Abuser | 175 |
The Good Soldiers Revenge | 181 |
Damage | 189 |
Guantánamo | 192 |
Heck of a Job | 268 |
Karen Hughes Takes a Tour | 275 |
Judy dArc | 286 |
The Indictment of Scooter Libby | 292 |
Stab in the Back | 298 |
Bob Woodwards Coverup | 307 |
The Law is King | 316 |
Annus Horribilis | 322 |
Meek Mild and Menacing | 331 |
The Proconsuls Apologia | 343 |
Bushs Brezhnev Period | 345 |
A Lincoln Portrait | 358 |
The Love Song of Francis Fukuyama | 372 |
Tethered Goats | 385 |
The Passion of George W Bush | 399 |