Family of Secrets

Air America Interview with Ron Reagan

For those of you who missed Russ’s July 8 interview with Ron Reagan on Air America, the show has kindly provided recordings of the broadcast for your listening pleasure:

Ron Reagan Interview, Segment 1 (mp3)

Ron Reagan Interview, Segment 2 (mp3)

Ron Reagan Interview, Segment 3 (mp3)

Ron Reagan Interview, Segment 4 (mp3)

Russ on Air America

Russ will be appearing on Ron Reagan’s show on Air America radio, Wednesday, July 8. The show airs live at 7pm Eastern time. Ron Reagan is the son of the late president.

Be sure to tune in!

Kwiatkowski Praises Family of Secrets

Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, former NSA and Pentagon official and arch-critic of the Iraq invasion, has strongly recommended Family of Secrets. She recently discussed the book and offered her own thoughts on the Bushes in a column for LewRockwell.com:

I recently read Russ Baker’s Family of Secrets, because Lew interviewed Russ Baker and it sounded great. The book delivers, although I suspect there are a lot of Bush family secrets that remain unexposed. I am personally curious about any Bush secret recipes on the back burner back in March 1981. As history, the Wikipedia version of the Reagan assassination attempt reads like a CIA moonlighter’s script for a movie of the week.

Baker’s research led him back to the days of the JFK assassination, where HW, or “Poppy” Bush was not where he said he was, after all these years. You’ll have to read the book for a real, and real interesting, lesson in modern American democracy.

Russ’s Reporting on W.’s Intent to Invade Iraq in Spotlight

This past Tuesday, June 2, Political Affairs Magazine ran a column by Sherwood Ross on Russ’s 2004 blockbuster pre-election scoop about George W. Bush’s intent, expressed back in 1999, to invade Iraq. 

Yesterday, The Raw Story’s John Byrne picked up the story. His detailed piece discusses the 2004 article as well as coverage of Family of Secrets.  Byrne’s entry immediately became a hit on Digg.

Join TPMCafe Book Club’s Discussion of Family of Secrets

This week, TPMCafe Book Club is featuring Family of Secrets.  Russ has kicked off the conversation with an introduction to the book.  Respondents include fellow authors Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher, Greg Anrig of The Century Foundation, and Craig Unger.

You don’t want to miss this discussion.  And don’t be afraid to add your two cents in comments . . . or to click on the “recommend” bar.

Russ Returned to KPFA’s Guns and Butter

After an insightful first interview that received a lot of positive feedback from listeners, KPFA‘s Guns and Butter with Bonnie Faulkner invited Russ back to cover the remaining important topics in Family of Secrets.

You can replay the interview directly on KPFA’s website or download the MP3 file here.

Russ on Radio Free Oklahoma

Russ was interviewed on Radio Free Oklahoma by hosts Chris Emery and Holland O. Van den Nieuwenhof .  The conversation covered topics from Family of Secrets, including the JFK assassination and Watergate.  Russ also answered several questions from listeners.

You can listen to the show by clicking here.

Russ Reading at Books on the Square, Providence, RI at 2PM, May 16th

This Saturday, May 16, at 2 p.m., Russ will be reading from Family of Secrets, taking questions, and signing books at Books on the Square in downtown Providence, R.I.

If you live anywhere nearby,  come and join us.

Books on the Square
471 Angell St
Providence, RI 02906
(401) 331-9097

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Russ on C-SPAN2′s Book TV

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Russ appeared on C-SPAN2′s Book TV program and read some passages from Family of Secrets to a live audience at BookPeople in Austin, Texas.

He also answered some interesting questions about why the book is relevant to current events and what its primary lessons are.  Don’t miss out on the discussion, which begins at the 36:45 mark.

Japan Times: W. the Movie Too Sycophantic? Try Family of Secrets Instead!

Japan Times today ran a review of “W.”, the Oliver Stone movie, and gave it 3 out of 5 stars for being too mild and not revealing enough.  The reviewer, Giovanni Fazio, concludes by urging readers to follow the movie up with Russ’s very own Family of Secrets:

Much of the film appears to be based on books by Ron Suskind, Bob Woodward, Ronald Kessler, Scott McClellan and others, and that is the film’s weakest point: All this stuff has been discussed endlessly over the past few years, and “W.” contains no surprises. Viewers seeking the vast rightwing conspiracy of “JFK” — not to mention its groundbreaking stylistic construction — will be disappointed. “Family of Secrets,” by reporter Russ Baker, should satisfy that urge, with a boatload of wild allegations that come tantalizingly close to being proven.