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Utter Incompetents: Ego and Ideology in the Age of Bush

Utter Incompetents: Ego and Ideology in the Age of Bush

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21st Century United States HistoryUnited States Politics

Publisher Price: $22.99

ISBN10: 0312385668
ISBN13: 9780312385668
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Aug 19 2008
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.34 Depth: 8.24
Language: English

Tom Oliphant is one of the true chroniclers of America. He uses his wit and wisdom to offer critical, insightful, and loving observations of our politics, culture, and society. He is the Will Rogers of our time. ---Madeleine Albright

The collapse of the Bush presidency is a broadly acknowledged fact. By any fair assessment, much of the past seven years has been disastrous. The challenge is to understand why.

From domestic policy to international goofs, from soaring energy prices to the health care crisis---Thomas Oliphant tackles it all, closely inspecting the initial projections and promises of Bush and his key senior of?cials, and the ways in which they lost control of these well-publicized and overcon?dent plans. By comparing their rhetoric to their dismal record, Oliphant provides a historic analysis of the Bush administration---showing how a system so seemingly competent and mechanized could fail so miserably, and with such frequency. Utter Incompetents is at its heart a searching look at the George W. Bush administration, its policies, and the legacy that it will leave behind on January 20, 2009.

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