Bushworld

By: Maureen Dowd

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

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.©2004 Maureen Dowd and ©1992, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 The New York Times Company; (P)2004 Penguin Audio and Books on Tape, Inc.

Excellent Wrtiting

Fantastic writing for which I would have given it a "5". But since we all lived through the election over the past year (at least) - nothing really new - which lowers the work. Bush had a major win and clearly too many people don't care about the business connections, Saudi alliances, etc. I enjoy Dowd's writing very much but after awhile the content "got old".

Good . . . But Long

I really enjoyed Bushworld . . . but it did go on and on and on and on . . . Sometime too many outrageous facts can boggle the mind!

Highly opinionated

Author takes a small amount of content and expands into a 13 hours and 4 min book.

About as unbiased as Michael Moore

I suspect a few of the reviews praising this work may have been seeded, so I felt compelled to speak up. To call this book journalism is ridiculous. If you hate the Bush(s), this book is more fuel for the fire. If you like the Bush family, you already know you won't like what the author has to say. However, if you're looking for an objective view of the White House administration and real world insights, this work isn't a credible source. It's entertainment, pure and simple. Ancedotes and witty commentary, disguised as "insight". The author should be ashamed to use her journalistic credentials to push a political agenda. I can get an opinion about the Bush administration just about anywhere. The truth is much harder to find.

Well Written

The writing in this book is very good, as I would expect it to be. However, I gave this one star because there was nothing lower than one. It's amazing that one person's bias and gossip could be taken as something representing the whole truth and nothing but the truth.