Bushit! How the Bush Crew is Wrecking America and Endangering the World.

• Jurisdiction: New Zealand
• Author: Harding, Bruce
• Date: 01 July 2006

BUSHIT! How the Bush Crew is Wrecking America and Endangering the World

Author: Jack Huberman

Published by: Granta Books, London, 2006, 430pp, $29.99.

This is a populist book, the successor to Huberman's The Bush-Hater's Handbook (2003) and a primer for dinner party arguments during the second 'W' Bush term. One can almost envisage this sturdy paperback being tossed around a meal table as rival views rage. It is reminiscent of David Corn's The Lies of George W. Bush (Crown, 2003) but is (surprisingly) less scholarly than Kitty Kelley's magnificent 2004 tome, The Family: The True Story of the Bush Dynasty. Huberman is a Canadian now living in New York and lists his various careers as a cartoonist, illustrator, graduate student, magazine writer, freelance book editor, newspaper reporter and stock trader. In other words, is he here riding yet another gravy train?

Huberman organises this book around Big Headings and set themes which explore the corporate graft of the 'W-ites': Abortion and Birth Control, Corporate-Owned Government, Economic Policy, Election 2004, Energy Policy, Environment, Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, Free Speech, Dissent and Press Freedom, Health Care and Profiteering, Homeland Insecurity, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, Media and Image Control, and Corporate War Profiteering. You get the gist.

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