Neck Deep

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Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush (Paperback)
By Robert Parry, Sam Parry and Nat Parry
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Just released, the BuzzFlash copies of "Neck Deep" are signed by the lead author, Robert Parry.

Parry is a former AP and Newsweek reporter, who runs one of our favorite websites, Consortiumnews.com. Parry is a mainstream journalist who came in from the cold, having seen the duplicity and buried truth that came out of governmental misdeeds in Central America and Iran-Contra.

Consortiumnews, launched way back in 1995, has been a key source of analytical commentaries exposing the right wing for their betrayal of the Constitution and democracy.

"A real-life who-done-it, Neck Deep unravels what may become one of history's great mysteries: Who killed the American Republic?

How did plutocrat George W. Bush come to lead the United States at the start of the 21st century - and how did he get away with using the 9/11 tragedy to overwhelm the constitutional safeguards that had protected the nation's liberties for more than two centuries?

Neck Deep shows how this crime was committed and then lines up the suspects - aggressive Republicans, accommodating Democrats, abrasive pundits, careerist journalists - for an assessment of collective guilt."

A solid overview of the nightmarish years known as the Bush Administration.

"It was a perfect storm that has been building for a quarter of a century," says Parry. "Aggressive Republicans, accommodating Democrats,and a press corps driven more by careerism than a search for truth have caused our country to become what the Founders fought against."

"Tracking the investigative work of the Web site Consortiumnews.com, Neck Deep also reveals that the mystery's secrets often were in plain view in real time. Much of the damage could have been avoided, the book shows, except that the Washington establishment itself was implicated....

The book opens with a first-person account of the cold, rainy, dreary winter day - January 20, 2001 - when George W. Bush was sworn in as President of the United States.

Neck Deep's remarkable narrative goes on to reveal how the American Republic, even at that moment, was undergoing decay that would accelerate dangerously after the 9/11 attacks.

The Bush administration soon was hollowing out many of America's most treasured principles, including the nation's founding belief in the "unalienable rights" of all mankind.

But Neck Deep does more than critique Bush's presidency. The book explains how - across the board - the Washington political/media elite failed the country.

The book also strips away the public myths surrounding leaders - from Colin Powell to John Kerry - and reintroduces them as real people with strengths and weaknesses.

Neck Deep weaves in, too, historical perspective that gives context to the extraordinary events in the six years since Bush became President, including revelations about his father's secret dealings in the Middle East."