Bushwhacked, Molly Ivins
Bushwhacked, Molly Ivins
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Bushwhacked
Life in George W. Bush's America

Author: Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 10 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/03/2003


Synopsis

A simultaneously rollicking and sobering indictment of the policies of President George W. Bush, Bushwhacked chronicles the destructive impact of the Bush administration on the very people who put him in the White House in the first place. Here are the ties that connected Bush to Enron, yes, but here, too, is the story of the woman who walks six miles to the unemployment office daily, wondering what happened to the economic security Bush promised. Here are reports on failed nation-building missions in Kabul and Baghdad. Here, too, the story of a rancher who has fallen prey to a Bush-Cheney interior department that is perhaps a wee bit too cozy with the oil industry. Bushwhacked is highly original and entirely thought-provoking—essential reading for anyone living in George W. Bush's America.

About The Author

Molly Ivins began her career in journalism in the complaint department of the Houston Chronicle. In 1970, she became coeditor of The Texas Observer, which afforded her frequent fits of hysterical laughter while covering Texas legislature. In 1976, Ivins joined The New York Times as a political reporter. The next year, she was named Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief, chiefly because there was no one else in the bureau. In 1982, she returned once more to Texas, which may have indicated a masochistic streak, and always had plenty to write about after that. Her column was syndicated in more than three hundred newspapers, and her freelance work appeared in EsquireThe Atlantic MonthlyThe New York Times MagazineThe Nation, Harper's, and other publications. Her first book, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?, spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list. Her books with Lou Dubose on George W. Bush—ShrubBushwhacked, and Who Let the Dogs In?—were national bestsellers. A three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, she claimed that her two greatest honors were that the Minneapolis police force named its mascot pig after her and that she was once banned from the campus of Texas A&M. Molly Ivins died in 2007.Lou Dubose has written about Texas and national politics for many years. He was the editor of the Texas Observer and the politics editor for the Austin Chronicle, and he currently edits The Washington Spectator. He was coauthor (with Molly Ivins) of Shrub and Bushwhacked. In 2003 he wrote (with Texas Monthly writer Jan Reid) The Hammer: Tom DeLay, God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress. In 2006 he wrote (with Texas Observer editor Jake Bernstein) Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency.Anna Fields was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A scriptwriter for As the World Turns, she is also a successful playwright and stand-up comedian. She now lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on November 12, 2015

Book on CD read by Molly Ivins The subtitle really says it all. Oh, how I miss Molly Ivins! Ivins was a political commentator / journalist based in Texas. In an earlier book, she and Dubose examined the George W Bush’s flawed policies and abysmal record as governor of Texas. In this second book on “D......more

Goodreads review by James on March 29, 2009

We miss you, Molly Ivins! Being a Texan political reporter and essayist, she knew Dubya better than most when he took office as President, although he surprised even her with his capacity for murderous bungling and meanness. Her approach was, like that of Jim Hightower, to look at the lives of ordin......more

Goodreads review by Jude on October 06, 2010

It’s a catalogue of every destructive policy decision Bush made in his first 2 ½ years. Government no longer works for most of the people in this country. As governor of Texas, Bush lowered taxes for the very rich, lowered services to the very poor and made it a no-regulation state. He turned a $6 bil......more

Goodreads review by Saleem on January 02, 2013

My review, published in Metro, September 2004. Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America Molly Ivins & Lou DuBose Vintage Books (Random House) $17 CDN, Paperback *** 1/2 Newspaper columns come in three varieties: Good, bad and disposable. A good column is provocative. It argues a case. It makes a read......more

Goodreads review by Brett on October 04, 2016

Peer back through the mists of time to the year 2003, when a man named George W. Bush was President of the United States. This is the era under review by noted Texas columnist Molly Ivins and her coauthor. I sometimes read Ivin's syndicated column in the newspaper around this time period, and I've n......more


Quotes

“Ivins is surely one of the nation’s most adroit political commentators.” —People

“A sprightly catalogue of every destructive policy decision the Bushies have made in their first two-and-a-half years. . . . Sure to delight the president’s critics and madden his fans.” —The Washington Post Book World

“Ivins and Dubose are worthy heirs of the honorable tradition of muckraking.” —Paul Krugman, The New York Review of Books

“A thorough (and thoroughly researched) condemnation of our 43rd president's domestic policy. . . . The intensely individual stories make this much more than a tart tongue-lashing. . . . Illuminating reading.” —Austin American-Statesman U.S.