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From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old Europe and new Europe, during the past two decades Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty, putting them, as both 41 and 43 have complained to her, "on the couch." Here she wittily dissects the Oedipal loop-de-loop between father and son and the Orwellian logic of the rush to war in Iraq. It's a turbulent odyssey charting how a Shakespearean cast of regents, courtiers, and neo-con Cabalists-all with their own subterranean agendas-hijack King George II's war on terror and upend the senior Bush's cherished internationalist foreign policy and Persian Gulf coalition. As she's written about Bushworld, "It's their reality. We just live and die in it.'" For thirty years, Maureen Dowd has written about Washington-and America-in a voice that is acerbic, passionate, outraged, and incisive. But nothing has engaged her as powerfully as the extraordinary agendas, absurdities, and obsessions of George the Younger. Drawing upon her celebrated columns, with a new introductory essay, she probes the topsy-turvy alternative universe of a group she has made recognizable by their first names, middle initials, nicknames, or numbers-41, the Boy Emperor, Rummy, Condi, Wolfie, Uncle Dick of the Underworld, General Karl, Prince of Darkness (Richard Perle), and her own nickname from W., the Cobra-as they seek an extreme makeover of the country and the world. Bushworld is a book that any reader who cares about the real world won't want to miss.
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"LOVED IT! Maureen Dowd validated many theories I had regarding the Bushwhacked administration. The comic relief angle to her accounts as a columnist helped one to get through the obscene injustices committed by the Bush administration. I hope her work will be revisited to help prosecute the buggers!"
— Sequoia (5 out of 5 stars)
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" The political situation is terribly frightening, but Ms. Dowd writes about it with wit and a commonsense voice. I was laughing when not quaking with fear. "
— Chana, 1/23/2014 -
" I will give Maureen Dowd credit for being witty, but this book was at least 300 pages too long. Maybe her subject was bad (mind you I don't mind a good Bush bashing) but after awhile i didn't care anymore. It took everything i had to finish this. "
— Alyssa, 1/17/2014 -
" maureen dowd saw it coming. "
— Megan, 1/4/2014 -
" Hilarious. Dowd never had a better subject than W., and she lets loose in a series of essays taken from her NY TIMES column. She hits home so many time it almost takes your breath away. Even the cover illustration is worth a chuckle! "
— Amy, 12/21/2013 -
" Nobody's wit cuts deeper than Maureen Dowd. "
— Karl, 12/13/2013 -
" great story - wonderful insight "
— Dan, 12/11/2013 -
" Maureen's got a way with words... "
— Karen, 12/10/2013 -
" This is a very good book. It would have been a great comedy had it not been true. I laughed several times and then said "wow, you've got to be shitting me!". "
— Joe, 12/9/2013 -
" Dowd's insights into the Bush administration's thinking (an oxymoron to be sure) were both prophetic, illuminating, and shocking. She made the insufferable idiocy of the former president more palatable with her satire and advanced vocabulary. Have a dictionary handy while you read this one! "
— David, 9/21/2013 -
" I didn't expexct to like this as much as I did, since I read her column regularly and nothing would be new. Reading it as she has arranged and selected her columns was great. "
— Gail, 7/19/2013 -
" I got the impression that the point of this book was to make more obscure references than a Dennis Miller routine. Unreadable. "
— Jon, 7/6/2013 -
" I remember reading this right around when it came out, and right around when I started leaving my family's traditional conservatism for the left. I was at my most insufferable, and even then, I found this book to be a bit much. "
— Matt, 6/13/2013 -
" A compilation of Maureen Dowd's editorials on the Bush family. She's amazing. "
— Desiree, 4/29/2013 -
" Oddly, it seems at times that Dowd was slightly charmed by Bush. This fact does not stop her from pointing out the colossal train wreck of the Bush administration though. "
— Keith, 12/31/2012 -
" Just because I agree with much of this book does not detract from the quality of the writing. Maureen Dowd is a keen, intelligent observer of politics. "
— Ronald, 10/6/2012 -
" Entertaining and makes me soooo glad 3 term presidencies are not allowed. "
— Cheryl, 1/17/2012 -
" Hilarious - not the subject matter but the writing style! Eye opening and amazing when you realize that this was not written 'after the fact.' These were editorials written between the late 90's and 2004. Her insight is 'right on!' "
— Sandy, 1/15/2012 -
" sorry but no one does it like mencken. "
— Sylvia, 11/28/2011 -
" Maureen Dowd takes you into the psychological aspects of the Bush Administration and shows you how decisions are made from Oedipal complexes. She is hysterical and brilliant. You won't get bored from this type of political writing! "
— Erica, 8/29/2011 -
" I thought this was pretty funny up to a point. I think Dowd is a clever and creative columnist, but I think she starts to grate on me after a while. "
— Ben, 7/21/2011 -
" I got the impression that the point of this book was to make more obscure references than a Dennis Miller routine. Unreadable. "
— Jon, 3/31/2011 -
" This is a very good book. It would have been a great comedy had it not been true. I laughed several times and then said "wow, you've got to be shitting me!". "
— Joe, 11/8/2009 -
" I will give Maureen Dowd credit for being witty, but this book was at least 300 pages too long. Maybe her subject was bad (mind you I don't mind a good Bush bashing) but after awhile i didn't care anymore. It took everything i had to finish this. "
— Alyssa, 7/9/2009 -
" Dowd's insights into the Bush administration's thinking (an oxymoron to be sure) were both prophetic, illuminating, and shocking. She made the insufferable idiocy of the former president more palatable with her satire and advanced vocabulary. Have a dictionary handy while you read this one! "
— David, 6/14/2009 -
" I love Maureen Dowd's columns, so naturally I loved this book. <br/><br/>My gripe -- it got really repetitive. "
— Jessica, 2/12/2009 -
" The political situation is terribly frightening, but Ms. Dowd writes about it with wit and a commonsense voice. I was laughing when not quaking with fear. "
— Chana, 1/26/2009 -
" Hilarious - not the subject matter but the writing style! Eye opening and amazing when you realize that this was not written 'after the fact.' These were editorials written between the late 90's and 2004. Her insight is 'right on!' "
— Sandy, 12/13/2008 -
" Nobody's wit cuts deeper than Maureen Dowd. "
— Karl, 8/22/2008 -
" sorry but no one does it like mencken. "
— Sylvia, 2/27/2008 -
" I didn't expexct to like this as much as I did, since I read her column regularly and nothing would be new. Reading it as she has arranged and selected her columns was great. "
— Gail, 1/31/2008
About Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd is a columnist for the New York Times and a New York Times bestselling author. In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the Clinton administration.
About Kathe Mazur
Kathe Mazur has narrated many audiobooks, winning the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2014, being named a finalist for the Audie Award in 2013 and 2015, and winning several AudioFile Earphones Awards. As an actress, she can be seen as DDA Hobbs on The Closer and in the upcoming Major Crimes. She has worked extensively in film, theater, and television, including appearances on Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, House, Brothers and Sisters, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, ER, Monk, and many others.