Family Of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In The White House & What Their Influence Means For America (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
In this detailed and extremely well-researched book on the Bush dynasty, Russ Baker brilliantly demonstrates how influence, power, money, image polishing, covert sabotage and backroom dealing are what go into making a U.S. president. This book should serve as a corrective to those who actually think on election day that they know the background, policies and character of candidates they are voting for. A powerful piece of historical research and political reporting that, unfortunately, many will categorise as conspiracy theory. And that's exactly the way politicians work, and also how open secrets stay unreported for so long.I am immensely grateful to Russ Baker for sticking to this Herculean task. So much is shocking, most of all the strange and compelling links to the Kennedy assassination. Expecting only the detailed chronology of the Bush family's crass presidential ambitions, I was completely blind-sided. A skeptic by nature, I've tried to pick holes in the Dallas story but failed, mostly because so much of what says is based on documents and testimony. He's on shakier grounds when it comes to the Woodward allegations, but that angle deserves greater investigation in its own right. And he's on very dodgy grounds with his Nixon hypothesis.Parts of the book are too repetitious to suit my own tastes. It could have done will a more rigorous edit (losing much of the Nixon chapters would have given it greater focus) which is why this is not quite a five star but it is still a great read.
What do You think about Family Of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In The White House & What Their Influence Means For America (2008)?
My jaw dropped...this a must read. Don't overlook the citations at the end!
—achira
Compeeling, interesting, a great bit of research
—Gigi
Miss W? Read this book. Hate W? Read this book.
—4araujo
