What Happened Here – Bush Chronicles – Current Affairs: 1020 (New Directions Paperbook) - Softcover

Weinberger, Eliot

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9780811216388: What Happened Here – Bush Chronicles – Current Affairs: 1020 (New Directions Paperbook)

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ISBN 10: 0811216381 ISBN 13: 9780811216388

Publisher: New Directions, 2005

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Essayist Eliot Weinberger sets his sights on the Bush team with brilliant, thought-provoking, funny consequences.

Written for publication in magazines abroad, translated into sixteen languages, and collected here for the first time, Eliot Weinberger's chronicles of the Bush era range from first-person journalism to political analysis to a kind of documentary prose poetry. The book begins with the inauguration of George W. Bush in January 200land an eerie prediction of the invasion of Iraqand picks up on September 12, with an account of downtown Manhattan, where Weinberger lives, on the "day after." With wit and anger, and sometimes startling prescience, What Happened Here takes us through the first term of the "Bush junta": the deep history of the neoconservative "sleeper cell," the invention of the War on Terror, the real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the often bizarre behavior of the Republican Party. For twenty-five years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay form into unexplored territory. In What Happened Here, truth proves stranger than poetry.

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"A ferocious excoriation of the Halliburton administration."

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Echoing, most likely consciously, the title of Sinclair Lewis' dystopian parable of fascism in America, It Can't Happen Here, this collection by New York essayist Weinberger rails against the "unelected junta" of the George W. Bush regime, its wars, and the corporations to which it is beholden. The essays, first written for foreign publication, beg

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