Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order - Softcover

Miller, Mark Crispin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393326780 ISBN 13: 9780393326789

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

Synopsis

Read a newspaper or catch the news on television and you might get the impression that America's current leadership is "mainstream": perhaps a bit more conservative and in its foreign policy more belligerent than its predecessors, but still a federal authority that functions within America's political traditions. But as Mark Crispin Miller argues here with great clarity and effect, we are in fact living in a state that would appall the Founding Fathers: a state that is neither democratic nor republican, and no more "conservative" than it is liberal. He exposes the Bush Republicans' contempt for democratic practice, their bullying religiosity, their reckless militarism, their apocalyptic views of the economy and the planet, and-above all-their emotional dependence on sheer hatefulness. Abraham Lincoln once observed that, if the United States should ever be subverted, "it will be conquered from within." And that is exactly what has happened.

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Review:

"Miller's thoroughness and clarity in tracking down the sources of the politics he decries, and the ways in which they are disseminated, set the book apart."

Synopsis:

Author Miller (media studies, New York U.) has been unrelenting in his criticism of the George W. Bush administration for many years now, charging the regime with being not only antidemocratic and antirepublican, but "fundamentally apocalyptic." Following up on his earlier The Bush Dyslexicon, he documents how the administration has used corrosive

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0393326780
• ISBN 13: 9780393326789
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372