Sinking the Ship of State: The Presidency of George W. Bush
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With wit and wisdom, Walter M. Brasch digs deep
into the Bush–Cheney Administration and extracts the truth of the past seven
years. In Sinking the Ship of State, a
well-documented 460-page book, Brasch looks at innumerable political and social
issues, including violations of six constitutional amendments, well-established
federal law, and international treaties. He also looks at media performance
since 2000, and the current campaign for the presidency.
“If pigs could vote,” says Brasch, “the current
crop of candidates from both parties fertilizing Iowa would pledge a campaign of
vegetarianism.”
Nationally-syndicated
columnist and best-selling author Jim
Hightower notes, “When most Americans and the mainstream media were
accepting whatever they were told by the Bush Administration, Walter Brasch was
meticulously peeling away the incompetence, deceit, corruption and, most of
all, their cavalier attitude to the
constitution.”
The Midwest Book Review agrees, pointing out that “Brasch is a
master at weeding through the political lies, deceit, corruption, rhetoric, and
hyperbole to help us find the truth. If you’re interested in
politics, this
book should be on your table beside your bed.”
Brasch
“does not spare the media in his well-informed and well-written account of the
real-time history of this benighted era,” says Alice Cherbonier, editor of the Baltimore
Chronicle. Syndicated columnist Don
Kaul says Brasch “lays the whip to an indolent press, ‘cash register
patriots,’ and a corrupt Congress.” He is, says Regina Huelman, editor of Liberal
Opinion Week, “an articulate and entertaining writer who was one of the
first and most consistent columnists to warn about the Bush Administration’s
plans for a pre-emptive attack on Iraq and the drummed up evidence of
WMD, as well as the Administration’s consistent attacks upon Constitutional
rights.”
Jeffrey St. Clair, co-editor of the
popular website, CounterPunch, says Brasch’s writing “is propelled by a lively
sense of humor and an acute sensitivity to the darker ironies of our times.” Ron Kall, editor of OpEd News, calls
the book “powerful, compelling and accurate,” and Joe Shea, editor of The
American Reporter, calls Brasch “a unique American with a very creative
mind that grapples with the most basic of political problems.”
Brasch’s
“intense passions for liberty and enlightenment make him one of the best voices
we have to combat the worst who rule over us,” says syndicated columnist and
best-selling author Chris Floyd who
notes that Brasch is “probing, witty, insightful and learned.”
The book is available through amazon.com and other
online stores.
Brasch,
professor of journalism at Bloomsburg University, is a former newspaper editor,
an award-winning syndicated columnist, the president of the Pennsylvania Press
Club, and the author of 16 other books, including America’s Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Government’s Violation of
Constitutional and Civil Rights (Jan. 2005); ‘Unacceptable’: The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina (Jan.
2006); and Sex and the Single Beer Can:
Probing the Media and American Culture (Sept. 2006)
Learn
more about Dr. Brasch at http://www.walterbrasch.com
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