George Bush's Lies:
The Books

The following books deal with the lies of George W. Bush and the lies of the radical rightwing reactionaries who support him.

The Great Unraveling:  Losing Our Way in the New Century, by Paul Krugman.  Every thinking American needs to read this book -- which probably means it will be read by only a few.  At the beginning of the 21st century, the most advanced nation in history is under the control of the most radically reactionary forces in our history.  This nation has been hijacked by a rightwing mob that rejects the legitimacy of everything the U.S. stands for -- and they are getting away with it because the press is afraid to take them on.

The Lies of George W. Bush, by David Corn.  The title says it all.   Problem is, this book is only 324 pages long and to catalog all the lies by G. W. Bushitter would take ten times that many pages -- thus, the book only lists the really big lies.

Big Lies:  The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth, Joe Conason.  Title says it all.  Again, there is not enough paper and ink in the world to document the lies of the "right"  - Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Tom Delay, George W. Bush, American Spectator, Michael Savage,  James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Dinesh D'Souza, Richard Mellon Scaife, and on and on and on -- lie piled upon lie until the Big Lie becomes the Truth.

Blinded by the Right, by David Brock.  Brock was one of the big stars in the far right wing of the Republican party.  He wrote the book that destroyed -- or attempted to destroy -- Anita Hill.  Brock was a favorite of the right and was in the midst of much of what really was a "vast rightwing conspiracy" to trash the Clinton administration.  Then he saw the light.  Read this book.

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, by Al Franken.  Franken has done us all a service by exposing some of the lies of the radical right and their mouthpieces -- O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Coulter, Bush, Cheney, and the like.  Franken is a comedian and that fact hurts this book -- he spends too much time being funny and that bites into his topic.  Still, he says what needs to be said about these radical rightwingers who have made The Big Lie tactic their own.

Made in Texas:  George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics, by Michael Lind.  Lind is a former conservative who saw the light.  Disgusted at the hate and venom he experienced daily as an insider in the conservative circles of William F. Buckley and other luminaries of the far right, Lind had a conversion and now writes, warning us of the serious threat from present-day Republican conservatism to our way of life.  In this book, he details how Southern militarism and racism, Southern elite economics that focuses on primitive commodity production, and Southern Protestant fundamentalism combined to capture Washington, DC -- and to threaten the American middle class.

Up From Conservatism, by Michael Lind.  Lind describes his conversion from a rising star in the Republican rightwing conservative movement.  He then lays out why present-day Republican rightwing "conservatism" -- which is not conservative at all -- is bad for America.