May 12, 2006

Reading material

Here's a kind of meta-review of recent books about the Bush Administration from the NYT. I own a couple and have read others; some have not yet been published. The Times reviewer's conclusion: most are critical, and only a couple are from the true believers (Fred Barnes and Ari Fleischer; what a surprise!).

The full list is below:

"The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq," by George Packer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 2005)

"The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right," by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon (Times Books; 2005)

"Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq," by Larry Diamond (Times Books; 2005)

"The Right Man: An Inside Account of the Bush White House," by David Frum (Random House Trade Paperbacks; 2005)

"Rebel-in-Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush," by Fred Barnes (Crown Forum; 2006)

"America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy," by Francis Fukuyama (Yale University Press; 2006)

"Against All Enemies:Inside America's War on Terror," by Richard A. Clarke (Free Press; 2004)

"State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration," by James Risen (Free Press; 2006)

"Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib," by Seymour M. Hersh (HarperCollins; 2004)

"Plan of Attack," by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster; 2004)

"My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope," by L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell (Simon & Schuster; 2006)

"Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq"

by Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor (Pantheon; 2006)

"Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy," by Bruce Bartlett

"The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill," by Ron Suskind (Simon & Schuster; 2004)

"The President’s Counselor: The Rise to Power of Alberto Gonzales," by Bill Minutaglio (Rayo; July 1, 2006)

"Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House"

by Ari Fleischer (William Morrow; 2005)

"The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast" by Douglas Brinkley (William Morrow; 2006)

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