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Bushwhacked Audio Book
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Bushwhacked
Authors:
Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Reader: Molly Ivins
Outspoken and headstrong, this Texas columnist elaborates on what she calls Bush's flawed strategies in running the world's largest superpower. A Publishers Weekly 2003 Listen Up Award-winner. "Ivins is a joy to listen to... She's mad as hell and is ready to do something about it, yet she never lets that fact interfere with her delightfully offbeat sense of humor."—Publishers Weekly
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Publish Date: 01/01/1900
ISBN: 9780739317754
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Synopsis:
A simultaneously rollicking and sobering indictment of the policies of President George W. Bush, Bushwhacked chronicles the destructive impact of the Bush administration on the very people who put him in the White House in the first place. Here are the ties that connected Bush to Enron, yes, but here, too, is the story of the woman who walks six miles to the unemployment office daily, wondering what happened to the economic security Bush promised. Here are reports on failed nation-building missions in Kabul and Baghdad. Here, too, the story of a rancher who has fallen prey to a Bush-Cheney interior department that is perhaps a wee bit too cozy with the oil industry. Bushwhacked is highly original and entirely thought-provoking—essential reading for anyone living in George W. Bush's America.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Author Bio:
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Molly Ivins was born in Austin, Texas, in 1944, to a stern conservative father; she would later credit her liberal viewpoints to her constant arguments with him. From an early age, the tall, gangly Ivins didn't fit in with the Texas schoolgirl set, and her attitudes toward the Vietnam war and the civil rights movement reflected her anti-establishment mindset. After studying at Smith College and Columbia, Ivins worked for the Houston Chronicle and the Minneapolis Tribune before finally landing a job for the muckraking Texas Observer in 1970. It was there that she perfected her scathing wit and droll ability to expose hypocrisy and ignorance in political leaders. Her columns were known for blending Texas colloquialisms with razor-sharp insight. After a stint as a writer for The New York Times from 1976 to 1982, where her folksy style clashed with the Times elitism, Ivins returned to Texas, eventually becoming a nationally syndicated columnist. Frequent targets for her barbs included the Republican party (she coined the nickname "Shrub" for George W. Bush) and the Texas legislature. In 1999 she contracted breast cancer, finally succumbing to it in 2007. Her columns and political humor have been collected in several books. In her final column, printed several days before her death, Ivins called for Americans to resist the war in Iraq: "Raise hell," she wrote. "Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous."
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