What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception Audiobook

" I really triesd to get through this book- too many details and names to remember. Wasn't pretty disappointed. "

" hard to read in terms of his lame writing, interesting where he is still a bush loyalist while hating everyone around W at the same time. "

" I almost want to give this book a higher rating. It's a reasonably interesting account of the total contempt for everyone and everything that the Bush administration had. There's an element of redemption here for Scott. However I feel that he's trying to salvage his reputation and if he really was against Bush as much as he seems to be, he shouldn't have worked for him. Also there are much better books that cover similar subjects as the ones he covers. Still, I think I'm glad he wrote it and I think he has some element of regret and maybe even remorse, unlike Cheney and Rove for example. "

" This was a good, fair analysis of the Bush White House and how the news media plays into the message. "

" This was an interesting read because McClellan was the first (and one of the only) of Bush's inner circle to publically question what happened. It was still too idealistic and "see, i wasn't the bad part!" to really make this book recommendable. McClellan should have read "All Too Human" before writing this. "

" Matt chose this book. It's taking me a while to get into it. I never knew Bush had a DUI though! "

" I'm giving this book a measly two stars because I listened to the audio version and was very disappointed. You would think an insider's view of what happened in the Bush administration would warrant finding a good, articulate reader, but I don't know where they found the frat boy that ended up doing it. Good God, the mispronunciations! Who the hell is Ari "Flesher"? Dude, it's Fleischer, say it right, for Chrissake. And that's just one example, he said so many basic words incorrectly that I lost track. I swear, it was like sitting through my 5th grade reading class again, having to listen to the kid who couldn't quite get how to put a sentence together. It was actually painful. And the icing on the cake was when I finally reached the last disc...and because of some moron's mistake in the CD-burning department over at Blackstone Audio, it was actually the first disc all over again. ARGH! I was really looking forward to hearing McClellan's take on events too. "

" Meh. It was alright. Didn't really cover anything we didn't know already. Maybe a few more inside quotes, and a chance to lose even more respect for Harriet Miers. But it seems pretty fair. He cut Bush a lot of slack, yet he went so far as to compliment the liberal media. "

" Get a ghostwriter, Scott McClellan. Or, just shut the fuck up. You have no idea what you're blathering about, do you? "

" A very, very strange read. "

" What you'd expect - most of it anyway. No new light, just a new source. And a source of income for him. "

" A first hand account by former press secretary Scott McClellan of the controversies that dogged the Bush White House. Up to the reader to figure out how much is accurate and how much is "sour grapes". Interesting to anyone who follows politics. "

" Holy stars.... You will have your eyes opened, in a not so slanted or biases view of the Bush White House. "

" This book is a little slow to get going and the revelations are not that revealing. A couple of items peaked my interest, but much of it had been hashed out in the news ages ago. "

" Very interesting read from a Bush Administration insider. Verified assumptions and provided insight to things I didn't know. "

" A scary read, but good to be informed. If you are at all interested in what has happened in Washington during the Bush-Cheney presidency...this is a book for you! "

" This is full of rambling, redundant political philosophy with a time line that jumps all over the place. Some of the antipodal stories are interesting, but there aren't nearly enough of these. It was a fight to get through this. "

" An in depth look into the secrecy of the Bush Admin within their own ranks, and the temperments of the conspirators of the Iraqi/Afghan wars "

" Like everything else in this administration who knows how honest he is being but it was a good read and did give some insight on how the government tries to handle the media and some very good points on how the media is in many ways a key problem to our governments lack of bipartisanship. "

" meh, was ok. It shed some light on what happened but I still don't feel like I got the whole story. "

" It was interesting to get McClellan's take on how things are handled at the White House. I could tell he really admired George W. Bush and felt genuinely bad about what happened. After listening to all the news reports at the time it was going on it's easy not to trust anyone in politics. "

" I like this book for the inside of somebody that was the former white house press secretary, recommended. "

" Superficial, but still revealing of the Bush Administration's mendacity "

" Suggested for political science fans. This is from the perspective of GW's long time press secretary. That job sucked :) "

" Interesting--but the title promises more than the book delivers. McClellan's diplomatic fence-sitting may enable him to continue to have a career in politics, but it makes for a dull read. "

" oLD NEWS. iS HE LOOKING FOR A JOB OR TRYING TO BECOME THE NEXT jOHN dEAN? "