The greatest story ever sold George Bush

When America was attacked on 9/11, its citizens almost unanimously rallied behind its new, untested president as he went to war. What they didn't know at the time was the Bush administration's highest priority was to vanquish Al Qaeda but to consolidate its power at any cost. It was a mission that could complished only by a propag. anda presidency in which reality was steadily replaced by a scenario of the White House's own invention—and such was that scenario's devious brilliance that it fashioned a second war against an enemy that did not attack America on 9/11, intimidated the Democrats into incoherence and impotence, and turned a preential election into an irment into an iration into an ant referendum on macho imagery and same-sex marriage.

As only he can, acclaimed New York Times columnist Frank Rich delivers a step-by-step chronicle of how skillfully the White House built its house of cards and how the institutions that should have exposed these fictions, the mainstream news media, were too often left powerless by the administration's relentless attack machine, their own post-9/11 timity, and an unending para ade of self-inflicted scandals (typified by those at The New York Times). Demonstrating the candor and conviction that has made him one of our most trusted and incisive public voices, Rich brilliantly and meticulously illuminates the White House's disturbing love affair with "truthiness," and the ways in which a bled war, a seemingly obscure leak. and a devastating hurricane at long last revealed the man-behind-the-curtain and the story that had so effectively been sold to the nation, as god-given patriotic fact.

Review:
'This is an eye opener for everyone who reads it. Definitely food for thought. It does explain a lot of the unexplained.' - Amazon review

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