Strange Death of Republican America Chronicles of a Collapsing Party

Name: Strange Death of Republican America Chronicles of a Collapsing Party
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ISBN: 9781402757891

ISBN-10: 1402757891

ISBN-13: 9781402757891

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sidney Blumenthal

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Sidney Blumenthal—trenchant analyst, best-selling author, and senior adviser to former President Bill Clinton (and more recently, Hillary)—offers a penetrating journalistic and historical examination of the ongoing collapse of Republicanism. Closely charting the Party’s imploding reputation in America and the world, as well as the potential consequences of George W. Bush’s radical presidency for the 2008 election,The Strange Death of Republican Americawill be required reading for anyone interested in politics and concerned about the fate of the nation. In these essays and opinion columns written by Blumenthal over the past few years forThe Guardianof London and Salon.com, along with a new…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Union Square Press
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Introduction: The Strange Death of Republican America



Implosion: From Stephen Colbert's Monologue to Mark Foley's Emails


The Fool


Coup at the CIA


The Nativist Revolt


Defeat Through Victory


The War Paradigm


The Bush Way of War


"Mission Accomplished" in a Business Suit


Surrealpolitik


The Avoiding of the President


Judgment Day


A Pantomime Presidency


The Emperor's New Veto


Splitting the Republican Cell


Birth Pangs


Ring of Fire


Axis of Failure


Father and Son


Remembrance of Things Past


The Enabler


Dreamland


A Radical Temperament


Where Torture Got Him


In Denial


The Bob Woodward Version


Instant Messages


Queer and Loathing on Capitol Hill


The Intervention


Rove's Last Campaign



Repudiation: From the 2006 Elections to the Baker-Hamilton Report


Downfall of the Culture War


Realignments


Deep Currents


All the Father's Men


"The business about a graceful exit"


The Prime of Ms. Jeane Kirkpatrick


The Escalation of Delusion


No Time to Heal


Washington's Political Cleansing



Delusion: From the Trial of I. Lewis Libby to the Testimony of General David Petraeus


Contortions of Power


Preparing for Failure


United States v. I. Lewis Libby: Washington Anthropology


United States v. I. Lewis Libby: Closing Arguments


United States v. I. Lewis Libby: The Verdict


The History Book Club


The Assassination of Dick Cheney


All Roads Lead to Rove


Law and Disorder


The Passion of the Judas


The Republican Grand Experiment


Dances With Wolfowitz


Torture Kitsch


Spooked


Royal Crush


Loyalty and Betrayal


Wolfowitz's Tomb


The Libby Lobby


Fugue State


Null and Void


The Imperial Vice Presidency


"The Administration of Justice"


Marketing, Muslims, and Methodists


Stab in the Back


The Code of Silence


Colin Powell's Ghost


Rove's Fall


The War of Memory


Fredo's End


Top Secret


The General Testifies


The Many Victories of George W. Bush


A Republic, If You Can Keep it


Acknowledgments


Index