From Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, authors of Shrub,
Bushwhacked is a hilarious, no-holds-barred look at George
W. Bush and his administration, and an essential book for
understanding the full, destructive impact of his presidency.
For years, bestselling political commentator Molly Ivins has
been sounding the alarm about George W. Bush. In Shrub, her
2000 skewering of presidential candidate Bush, the
inimitable Ivins, with co-author Lou Dubose, offered a
devastating exposé of Dubya?s career and abysmal record as
governor of Texas. Now, in their second book on our current
White House occupant, Ivins and Dubose take the wire brush
to the Bush presidency and show how he has applied the same
flawed strategies he used in governing Texas to running the
largest superpower in the world.
Bushwhacked brings to light the horrendous legacy of the
Bush tax cut, his increasingly appalling environmental
record, his administration?s involvement in the Enron
scandal, and the real Bush foreign policy?botched nation
building in Kabul and Baghdad, alienation of former
allies?and, unfortunately, much more. Ivins and Dubose go
beyond the too frequently soft media coverage of Bush to
show us just how damaging his policies have been to ordinary
Americans??the Doug Jones Average,? rather than the Dow
Jones Average. Bushwhacked is filled with sharp observation,
humor, and compassion for the people often ignored by the
federal government and the Washington press corps.
With the war on terrorism posing unprecedented challenges to
our civil liberties, and with the Bush economic policy in
shambles, it is high time for a close look at the state of
our Union. Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose provide just that in
Bushwhacked?an incisive, entertaining, and damning
indictment of the Bush presidency.