Until her death in January 2007, Ivins made at least one speech a month for no fee in defense of the Bill of Rights. During her travels, she met ordinary people going to extraordinary measures to protect their rights, and, in this book, she celebrates their courage and accomplishments.
This lively yet highly critical view of George Walker Bush is by two veteran Texas journalists who examine his record as governor of the state of Texas, his public statements, his associates, and whatever they can put together under the rubric "policies." This book was published before Bush was elected President. One of the authors, Molly Ivins, ...
Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose take on the Bush administration, indicting it for trashing the rights (and substantially diminishing the lives) of average citizens while lining the pockets of the corporate rich. The authors--humorously but seriously--also take on the dangers to the environment, schools, and America's safety from terrorists.
Dick Cheney is the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in U.S. history. He has thrived alongside a president who from day one had little interest in policy and limited experience in the ways of Washington. Yet Cheney's quiet, steady rise to prominence over a span of three decades occurred largely behind the scenes. Now veteran ...
Dubose and Reid present a lively, hard-hitting biography of the pro-business, pro-Jesus, anti-government, anti-environment House majority leader Tom DeLay who is driving today's congressional agenda.
Karl Rove is credited with the strategy that got George W. Bush to the White House, and with masterminding the successful congressional campaigns that gave the Republicans a majority in Congress. Here, two political reporters review Rove's early years as a political consultant in Texas and the battles he fought and won that reshaped party ...
With "The Hammer," Lou Dubose and Jan Reid track the rise of Tom DeLay from owner of a pest control business to unremarkable, and hard-partying, Texas legislator (his nickname was "Hot Tub Tom"), to the congressional pinnacle of power. DeLay is the representative who has called the Environmental Protection Agency "the Gestapo of government," that ...
Unlike President George. W. Bush, Karl Rove, his chief political adviser, is rarely "misunderestimated. " Many of the president's opponents see Rove's hand in everything the president does. His friends, and the president himself, are just thankful he's on their side, and always has been. From their earliest days in Texas, Rove saw and tapped ...
Molly Ivins one of the wittiest columnists in America, takes us on a wild ride through two decades of political life, from Ronald Regan, through Big George and Bill Clinton to current top dog, known as Dubya.
Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose take on the Bush administration, indicting it for trashing the rights (and substantially diminishing the lives) of average citizens while lining the pockets of the corporate rich. The authors--humorously but seriously--also take on the dangers to the environment, schools, and America's safety from terrorists.
This lively yet highly critical view of George Walker Bush is by two veteran Texas journalists who examine his record as governor of the state of Texas, his public statements, his associates, and whatever they can put together under the rubric "policies." This book was published before Bush was elected President. One of the authors, Molly Ivins, ...
This lively yet highly critical view of George Walker Bush is by two veteran Texas journalists who examine his record as governor of the state of Texas, his public statements, his associates, and whatever they can put together under the rubric "policies." This book was published before Bush was elected President. One of the authors, Molly Ivins, ...
For all our mockery of America, we are morbidly fascinated by it. This is a book about George W. Bush 'uncut', his extreme ideology, his capabilities, and his past.
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