Generalissimo El Busho: Essays & Cartoons on the Bush Years - Hardcover

Rall, Ted

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1561633844 ISBN 13: 9781561633845

Publisher: NBM Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

Ted Rall is best known for saying today what will become conventional wisdom tomorrow. His GENERALISSIMO EL BUSHO is the ultimate chronicle of the most polarizing presidency in modern American history, a brilliantly tragicomic week-by-week dissection of the Bush Administration's follies and crimes as seen by America's most courageous editorial cartoonist and political writer.

Ted Rall, who has traveled and reported from the world's hottest trouble spots, recognizes a dictator when he sees one. And he doesn't scare easily. Having seized power extraconstitutionally, Bush and his cabal of corrupt businessmen made it obvious that they intended to rule with ruthless zeal. Unlike most of his fellow journalists, however, Rall refused to be cowed--even in the wake of 9/11. Others came out of the woodwork during 2003, but Ted Rall's ferocious denunciations of our ersatz president and his assaults on our precious freedoms stood virtually alone during the flag-waving weeks and months following the attacks on New York and Washington. And unlike every other commentator, Rall used two different forms of media--cartoons and essays--to speak brutally honest truth to power even as he fended off death threats.

Brave, uncompromising and fiercely devoted to traditional American values of freedom and integrity, Ted Rall's GENERALISSIMO EL BUSHO collects the best of his hilarious cartoons and brutally honest essays during the Bush years.

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From the Author:

Three million people lost their jobs, tens of thousands of Afghans and Iraqis lost their lives and we got stuck fighting two pointless wars that stregthened the terrorists who hate us. Some people did get something out of George W. Bush's reign of error, however: the super rich, who collected stupendous tax cuts, big corporations, who enjoyed almost total freedom to do whatever they want, and people like me. We political humorists and commentators ended up with the most radical, idiotic and vicious president in history--and he was illegimate to boot! Not to mention: he was busy. Some days, I swear I could have drawn a dozen cartoons and written a dozen more columns. There were so many new initiatives, so many over-the-top schemes, it was nearly impossible to keep up.

GENERALISSIMO EL BUSHO is the beneficiary of this embarrassment of inspirational riches. I hope you like it.

About the Author:

Twice winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Ted Rall is a syndicated editorial cartoonist and columnist for Universal Press Syndicate. His previous books include To Afghanistan and Back, Revenge of the Latchkey Kids and 2024.

About this edition

• Publisher: NBM Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1561633844
• ISBN 13: 9781561633845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160