A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency.
New York: Crown Publishers, June 2007.
Book information: publisher, Amazon.com.
Glenn Greenwald is an outstanding analyst of American political culture; I highly recommend his always insightful blog at Salon.com (here). Chapter Five is a very good summary of the Bush administration's lawlessness.
Links:
- Glenn Greenwald, Wikipedia.
- Glenn Greenwald's Unoccupied Territory, his column/blog at Salon.com.
- Before Greenwald's blog was published by Salon.com it was here: http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/.
- Greenwald is also the author of: How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok; San Francisco: Working Assets Publishing, 2006 (publisher, Amazon.com).
- Greenwald appeared on Democracy Now!, 6 August 2007 (MP3, transcript).
- Book Forum, The Cato Institute, 07 August 2007.
Greenwald and others discuss his book. I recommend listening to the MP3. - Truth, Power, and the Iraq Debacle: A Conversation with Mark Danner, Conversations with History, Series Host Harry Kriesler, Institute of International Studies, The University of California at Berkeley, 27 July 2007.
Danner discusses the Manichean outlook of Bush, among other things. - Glenn Greenwald, Profiles in Journalism, Salon.com, 16 April 2007.
Greenwald observes: the Pulitzer Prize awarded to 'Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe won for national reporting for his revelations that President Bush often used "signing statements" to assert his controversial right to bypass provisions of new laws.' In this essay Greenwald highlights and links to Mr. Savage's notable articles.
An acknowledged source for Savage was Philip Cooper's paper "George W. Bush, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Use and Abuse of Presidential Signing Statements" [PDF].
The Pulitzer Priz Winners of 2007.
Glenn Greenwald, Interview with Charlie Savage, Salon.com, 24 April 2007.
Charlie Savage. Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy. Little, Brown and Company, September 2007 (publisher, Amazon.com). - David Weigel, Right All Along, Unfortunately; The "Chicken Littles" win the civil liberties debate, Reason, June 2007.
- Glenn Greenwald, Dick Cheney's top aide: "We're one bomb away" from our goal, Salon.com, 04 September 2007.
Jeffrey Rosen, Conscience of a Conservative (i.e., Jack L. Goldsmith), The New York Times Magazine, 09 September 2007.
Jack L. Goldsmith. The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration. W. W. Norton & Company, September 2007 (publisher, Amazon.com).
Recent developments on the lawlessness of the Bush administration: David Addington, warrantless wiretaps, FISA, the "torture memos" of John Yoo.