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Bushworld : enter at your own risk / Maureen Dowd.
| Author/creator | Dowd, Maureen |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Berkley trade pbk. ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Berkley Books, 2005, ©2004. |
| Description | 541 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Bush world |
| Contents | Adventures in an alternate reality -- The old king is deposed : In which the black sheep usurps the dutiful brother. Poppy packs up -- Jeb and junior : sibling smashdown -- Takin' up for daddy -- President frat boy? -- The regents enter : In which the old king encircles the dauphin with his trusted counselors. Freudian face-off -- Bushfellas -- Trust but verify -- Here comes the son -- Name that general! -- McCain picks up the mo in Motown -- A babysitter for junior -- New century, old grudges -- Grilled over rats -- West Wing chaperone -- War of the chads : In which the high court purloins the throne for the Bush dynasty. I feel pretty (The view from inside Al Gore's head) -- Deadlock : which will it be? -- Oyez! Oyez! Oy vey! This is one nutty election! -- Ahab vs. the Waco whale -- High and low -- The beginning of the end? Or the end of the beginning? -- The bloom is off the robe -- Oedipus wrecks : In which the family drama Aeschylates. When the boy king ruled -- Pappy and poppy -- Washington's transit : In which the politics of seduction give way to the politics of confrontation. The age of Mars -- I have a nickname! -- Space cowboys, Inc. -- Drill, grill and chill -- The asbestos president -- How green is their valley -- Mexico likes us! -- No whiff of poof -- The boy king's endless summer : In which the fault is in their Star Wars and in themselves. The relaxation response -- Rip Van Rummy awakes -- His magnificent obsession -- A grave silence -- Cleopatra and Osama -- Blessings and bombings -- Transfusing the blue blood with red to pump up the red states. Oedipal loop-de-loop -- Who's Joey Bishop? -- Vain or glorious? -- Planet of the privileged -- The class president -- Surrendering to vice : The boy king submits to the dark fahtter. The axis of no access -- Rub-a-dub in the hot tub -- Cheneyville Christmas -- Sleeping with the enemy : In which the Saudis fly away from 9/11 blame in their private jets. This dynasty stuff -- I'm with Dick! Let's make war! -- Under the Ramadan moon -- Frederick's of Riyadh -- Driving while female -- A golden couple chasing away a black cloud -- Weapons of mass redaction -- As the world turns on us : In which furious George upends his sire's friendly diplomacy. W.'s grand tour -- W.'s spaghetti western -- Lemon fizzes on the banks of the Euphrates -- A cynical chapter : Feeding the fear and stoking the homeland insecurity. Dept. of political security -- Aloft on bozoloft -- Desert spring, sprung -- Ready or not -- Scaring up votes -- On piety and pettifoggery. The God squad -- Playing the Jesus card -- A blue burka for justice -- Tribulation worketh patience -- A tale of two Fridays -- Could Thomas be right? -- Nino's opera bouffe -- Buch, butch Bush! -- Stations of the crass -- Quid pro quack -- In which Cheney, Rummy, Wolfie, Condi, Chalabi and the neocon gang hijack the war on terror. Hans, Franz and W. -- Junior gets a spanking -- Who's your daddy? -- Culture war with B-2s -- No more bratwurst! -- Why? Because we can -- The soufflé doctrine -- The empire strikes first -- In which the reader roots for the gallant Colin Powell to prevail against the Pentagon Visigoths. Powell without Picasso -- Bush's Warsaw war pact -- Bush ex machina -- What would Genghis do? -- The Xanax cowboy -- I vant to be alone -- Mashing our monster -- The perpendicular pronoun -- Perle's plunder blunder -- No more Saddam TV -- Back off, Syria and Iran! -- Dances with Wolfowitz -- He's out with the in crowd -- Hypocrisy and apple pie -- The iceman cometh -- Who's losing Iraq? -- Hey dude, where's my covert action? : In which Top Gun is toppled by sputtering spooks. Yo, Ayatollahs! -- Bomb and switch -- Desert double feature -- National house of waffles -- Le's blame Canada -- Blanket of dread -- Neocon coup at the department d'État -- The jihad all-stars -- Empire of novices -- We're not happy campers -- Gunsmoke and mirrors -- The spy who loved him -- Uncle Dick of the underworld : In which the dark father shows himself in the least amiable light. A tale of two fathers -- Eyes wide shut -- The Chicago way -- Their master's voice -- The buck house stops here -- Dump Cheney now! -- The mirror has two faces -- Murder most fowl -- The thief of Baghdad -- Sorry, right number -- Truth as a weapon -- Charlie McCarthy hearings -- Drunk on Rummy : In which the boy emperor has no clothes (or weapons). Mired in a mirage -- The Iraqi inversion -- Our new no-can-do nation -- From Osama with hate -- House of broken toys -- The body politic -- Shocking and awful -- A world of hurt -- Clash of civilizations -- The springs of fate -- What prison scandal? -- Bay of goats -- In which the Skull and Bones scions, one who saucily sloughed off and one who pompously strived up, face off. Gotta lotta stigmata -- Guns and peanut butter -- I read, I smoke, I spin -- See Dick run -- Cultural drifter -- JFK, Marilyn, "Camelot" -- Whence the wince? -- The politics of self-pity -- Pride and prejudice -- In memoriam. "The best possible life" -- Death be not loud -- Wolfie's fuzzy math -- Epitaph and epigone -- The boy king trumps daddy (and Kerry) : In which W. wages holy wars here and there, and rides a Crimson Tide. Vote and be damned -- Casualties of faith -- White House of horrors -- The red zone -- Rove's revenge. |
| General note | Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. With new material. |
| General note | A collection of the author's columns originally published in The New York times. |
| ISBN | 0425202763 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780425202760 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | E902 .D69 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |