
A must read - Think you know Bush? Think again.Using dates as headings, the book reads like a diary of a man who travelled with Bush through out his life. Everything little political detail is capured and written about. remember the attempt on REagan s life by the Jodie Foster fan? ALOT more is added to that story in this book. He was the youngest boy of the famil, and his family were very closes with the Bushes. Yes, THOSE Bushes. And Bush 1 had planned to meet for dinner THAT afternoon the would-be assassins older brother, having already set up a mock swearing in to the Presidency in case Reagan should somehow die.You don t hear THAT on T.V
A demonography - The authors explain the life and times of president G.Bush I as a man who is a major chess piece in the network of the mighty investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman and the freemason lodge `Skull and Bones .The authors sketch a dark picture of an oligarch in the Platonic sense: G. Bush as a scion of a wealthy patrician family, born to reign over the `democratic masses .Politically, G. Bush was implicated in the Iran-Contras scandal, the Panama and first Iraq invasions, the replacement of Formosa (Taiwan) by the PR of China (negotiating lucrative deals for his friends). He buried the investigation into the Hinckley (a brother of a friend of one of his sons) shooting of President Reagan.Economically, he defended his friends in the Pennzoil-Texaco trial about the take-over of Getty Oil. He saved the NCBC (NationsBank) from bankruptcy by `massive favors and graft at the expense of the tax payer . He relentlessly intervened on behalf of the oil cartels for their ground-tax privileges and oil depletion allowances. His war on drugs was only `rhetorical .Ideologically, the authors state that he sided with those propagating population control, eugenics, race science and the `inferiority of the blacks.Personally, they stress his mental instability and his `boundless lust for power .Original but important is their analysis of the Watergate scandal. For them it is a coup d état, instrumental in laying the basis for an authoritarian-totalitarian regime, not less than a rearrangement of the dominant institutions of the US government in favor of the intelligence communities.Nixon was dumped for his inability to manage the collapse of the dollar. However, as W. Engdahl explains in his magisterial book `A century of Wars , the subsequent oil crisis and the colossal oil price hike in 1973 catapulted the dollar and the US financial institutions again at the zenith of wealth power.This extremely well researched book (no libel suit!) constitutes a major information source and a must read for all those interested in US history.