Synopsis
Maureen Dowd, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, has partnered with G.P. Putnam's Sons for her debut book BUSHWORLD - a look at the current administration. For eighteen years, Dowd, who began her career in 1974 as an editorial assistant for the Washington Star and later joined the New York Times as a metropolitan reporter, has written about Washington and America in a voice that is caustic, funny, passionate, outraged, and eloquent. Nothing, however, has engaged her as much as the deeds of the George W. Bush administration. Here, she probes the world of Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Rice, Rove and others in what is destined to be one of the most remarkable works of the year - and just in time for the upcoming Democratic and Republican conventions.
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If metaphors were cigarettes, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd would be a chain smoker. Through many years and countless columns spent chronicling the fall of George H.W. Bush and the ascension of George W. Bush, Dowd has employed analogies to feudalism, The Godfather, Mini-Me, traditional "mommy" and "daddy" roles, and scores more. In this, her first book, Dowd compiles well over a hundred columns and summarizes the Bush dynasty under a single comprehensive analogy: an alternate universe called Bushworld ("It's their reality. We just live and die in it.") Dowd, who as a reporter was assigned to cover the elder Bush, seems to have a soft spot for the guy even as she describes a president with no plans to do anything but remain president. But she is alarmed by the younger Bush whom she sees surrounding himself with dangerous ideologues and starting a poorly thought-out war with disastrous consequences. Each column is relatively short, and Dowd never shares much new information, but instead offers the kind of informed skeptical perspective that's essential when interpreting the public statements of policymakers. Dowd's cleverness sometimes gets in the way of clarity, and one occasionally wishes she'd quit kidding around and say something substantive, especially since the reader of Bushworld will likely be several years removed from the news that inspired a particular column. Cleverness can be a virtue for a writer as well, getting a laugh while perfectly illustrating a point, such as when she says of the notoriously cloistered W. "All presidents are in a bubble, but the boy king was so insulated he was in a thermos." Or when she says of the Iraq War's aftermath "for the first time in history, Americans are searching for the reasons we went to war after the war is over." --John Moe
About the Author
For thirty years, Maureen Dowd has written about America in a voice that is acerbic, passionate, outraged, and incisive. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her political commentary in 1999, became a columnist on The New York Times Op-Ed page in 1995 after having served as a correspondent in the paper's Washington bureau since 1986. She has covered four presidential campaigns and served as White House correspondent.
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