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The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America | 
| Author: Frank Rich
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Rating:  143 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0143112341
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
EAN: 9780143112341
ASIN: 0143112341
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
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Product Description
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 that the Bush administration's highest priority would be to consolidate its own power at any cost. As only he can, New York Times columnist Frank Rich brilliantly and meticulously illuminates the White House's disturbing love affair with "truthiness." His step-by-step chronicle shows how the nation was misled into war in Iraq and how the bungled aftermath, a Washington leak, and a devastating hurricane at long last revealed the lies in a story that had been so effectively sold to the nation as God-given patriotic fact.
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 A troublesome, truthful 'must read' about the incompetent Bush years. July 11, 2008
CQ DX (Ohio, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
In this day and age of sanitized/filtered news and monopolized corporate media, it is refreshing to read a 'timeline' book that delineates all the mistakes, bad schemes, and outright lies of 'Bush 2' and company, written by an astute and honest researcher and chronicler. The book presents disturbing fact after fact that should trouble every American, and is not partisan in any way. Republicans, as well as Democrats, should be at least concerned, and at most outraged at all the inept mismanagement and lies that led to the Iraqi invasion, as well as the many other incompetencies of the Bush administration. From his ignoring the message that the second tower was attacked while reading to children to 'Yellowcake' to wrongly outing Valerie Plame to the Iraq war buildup based on lies/false information to the Iraqi war mismanagement to Bush staging 'Mission Accomplished' to Abu Ghraib to not providing proper armor/combat vehicles to our soldiers to the intransigence of Katrina to the 'swiftboating' of a war hero, John Kerry (while Bush saw no combat duty) to the fast rising oil/gas prices to the brainwashing of the largely gullible and malleable American public, etc. etc. etc. This excellent book essentially 'covers all the bases' when it comes to why George Bush will be considered one of the worst, if not THE worst Presidents we've ever had. Frankly, if 'Shrub' was a corporate CEO, his rear-end would have been fired a LONG TIME AGO! How this way below average buffoon ever made it to be POTUS in the first place is the shock of the century.
Too Much Sadly True Information June 21, 2008
Carey Budnick (Earth)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The timeline at the end of the book ties up the case: for some unknown reason (perhaps just to get re-elected) the party in power deliberately takes the country to war. Every documented lie is exposed. Sometimes the anguish I felt reading this book caused me to put it aside and I felt despair about our miss-directed lives as citizens.
thank God for frank's honesty April 27, 2008
David C. Costa (portland maine usa)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
what a truth-teller!!! if you want a refreshingly honest and accurate critique of the horrors of w's presidency, be sure to have this in your library...frankie's essays are delightfully biting...
The proof of years of BUSH Lying. April 20, 2008
E. Burke (New York,NY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
the spin, and Fox news propaganda always made up a quick response to any BUSH lies, and Incompetence. In this excellent book on CD's you can hear the actual truth, sans lying propaganda, and see how we were systematically deceived, manipulated, and just constantly lied to. As to IRAQ, and the whole run up to war, 'the whole damn thing was a LIE !'
The First Draft of History that will be cited 100 years from now April 6, 2008
HDTV shopper (Westport, CT USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Several years ago, I may have had some disagreements with Frank Rich's worldview and some of his columns. But I'm compelled to take a few moments to convey what an astounding accomplishment "The Greatest Story . . ." is.
Mr. Rich has strung together all the important milestones that were incomprehensible to those of us shrouded in the "fog of war" until the convergence of Cindy Sheehan, Katrina and Scooter Libby. This book is nothing short of the first draft of history that a century from now will be the pre-eminent resource of our nation's tragic misadventure in Iraq.
Mr. Rich's narrative is compulsively readable, making sense of the seemingly senseless, and demystifying the propaganda machinery perfected by the Bush administration.
"Greatest Story" is a must-read for anyone who cares to understand how a faux existential threat to America was exploited by the neocons to fashion a new world order in the Middle East with disastrous consequences, a squandering of blood and treasure and -- most importantly -- the destruction of a generation of patriots: American soldiers who will be brought home with appalling disabilities, psychological damage and torn families.
Kudos to Mr. Rich for this monumental achievement. It stands alone in the pantheon of books on the subject of making sense of the senseless.
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