All the president's enables: in the second year of Bush's second term, former officials and journalists are already writing the history of his administration. The story isn't pretty.(BUSH & HIS ENABLES)(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Washington Monthly | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: Ackerman, Spencer; Cannon, Carl; Chotiner, Isaac; Drum, Kevin; Hirsch, Michael; Sullivan, Margaret | Copyright information

George W. Bush is no Ronald Reagan

Kevin Drum on The Impostor

There was a period stretching roughly from August 2003 through November 2004 when it was nearly impossible to walk through a branch of Barnes & Noble without tripping over half a dozen sucks of books explaining why George Bush was the most disastrous president in US. history Al Franken had a book. Eric Alterman and Mark Green had a book. Arianna Huffington had a book. So did Molly Ivins, Joe Conason...

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