Secrecy & Privilege; Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq

Parry, Robert

ISBN 10: 1893517012 / ISBN 13: 9781893517011

Published by The Media Consortium Inc, Arlington, Virginia, 2004

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[6], iii, [1], 359, [31--Notes and index]. Inscribed on the half title page by the author, Robert Parry. The inscription reads: To Jane--one of my heroes, Bob Parry Oct. 30, 2004. Includes Introduction, as well as chapters on The Wedding; Front Row; Surreptitious Entry; Containing the Secrets; First Interregnum; The First Restoration; The Pieces Arrayed; The Hostage Gambit; Hostage End Game; 'Debunked?'; Where Was George?; The Russian Report; Analyst Obstacles; The Magic Words; War at Home; Moon Rising; Untouchables; Ties That Bind; Moon's Generation Next; Dynastic Succession; Electoral Coup; September 11; To War; and Conclusion: Broken Toys. Robert Parry (June 24, 1949 - January 27, 2018) was an American investigative journalist. He was best known for his role in covering the Iran-Contra affair for the Associated Press (AP) and Newsweek, including breaking the Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare (CIA manual provided to the Nicaraguan contras) and the CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking in the U.S. scandal in 1985. He was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984 and the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard's Nieman Foundation in 2015. Parry was the editor of ConsortiumNews from 1995 until his death in 2018. The idea of this book was to examine how the two George Bushes intersected with important turning points of recent American history, not just what they did but how the surrounding events affected them, and how they affected the course of the American democratic experiment. While other authors have examined aspects of this extraordinary family dynasty, Robert Perry wanted to take a journalist's eye view of how the Bushes fit into various scandals and other momentous events from Watergate to Iraq. Tracing investigative leads back through three decades, Secrecy & Privilege explores the mystery of how the two George Bushes rose to the pinnacle of American political power -- and what the rise of their dynasty has meant to the nation's democratic principles.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Secrecy & Privilege; Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq
• Publisher: The Media Consortium Inc, Arlington, Virginia
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1893517012
• ISBN 13: 9781893517011
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Illustrator: Robbie Conal (Cover art)
• Edition: Presumed First Edition, First printing.
• Condition: Very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Terrorism
  • Democracy
  • CIA
  • White House
  • Iran-Contra

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Synopsis

Describes the rise to power of George Bush and his son George W. Bush, and their impact on American history and politics.

About the Author

Robert Parry is a 27-year veteran of Washington journalism who broke many of the stories now known as the Iran-Contra Affair for the Associated Press and Newsweek in the 1980s. Among his awards is the 1984 George Polk Award for National Reporting. Parry was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1985. His other books including Fooling America, a look at the decline of the Washington press corps, and Lost History, an examination of the hidden history of the Cold War conflicts in Central America.