Russ Baker on The Takeaway, Public Radio International.
Date: Nov. 12, 2010
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After two years of laying low, former President George W. Bush came out with a bang this week, with the release of his memoir, “Decision Points.” While the world has been focusing on Bush’s take on the Iraq war, weapons of mass destruction, the use of waterboarding and Hurricane Katrina, today we want to discuss what the memoir means in the context of the Republican surge in the past election. Is the book about the pastBush administration, or is it laying the ground for another Bush generation to take back the White House in the future?
Did you think that in 2008 you were saying goodbye, forever, to the Bush clan? Well, guess what? They’re back, baby.
Who engineered the 2010 GOP election sweep? Karl Rove. And who has he worked for throughout his career? The Bushes. Meanwhile, Jeb Bush is already being touted as a possible candidate for the White House in 2012. And George W. Bush is rewriting history with his new memoir.
Now is a great time to learn what you didn’t know about the Bushes, who’s behind them, and what it all really means. Deep, powerful revelations. Read Family of Secrets-the book Gore Vidal calls “one of the most important books of the past ten years.” And have your eyes opened.
LOS ANGELES Join Russ Baker for a discussion of what’s not in George W. Bush’s new book (but is in Russ’s), how the Republicans could be on their way back into the White House, and who gains from all of this. Copies of Family of Secrets will be available, and Russ will sign copies.
Date:
Tuesday, Nov. 16
Time:
7:00pm
Location:
Valley Democrats United, Van Nuys State Building, Suite 120, Van Nuys
Los Angeles Appearance #2:
Thursday, Nov. 18, TBD: Pacific Palisades home: (check back for details)
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Join Russ Baker for a discussion of what’s not in George W. Bush’s new book (but is in Russ’s), how the Republicans could be on their way back into the White House, and who gains from all of this. Copies of Family of Secrets will be available, and Russ will sign copies.
Date:
Tuesday, Nov. 30
Time:
7:00pm
Location:
Book Passage, Corte Madera (Marin County, minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge.)
San Francisco Bay Area Appearance #2: Join Russ and Peter Dale Scott for a discussion of “Deep Politics in the era of Bush and Obama.” Copies of Family of Secrets will be available, and Russ will sign copies.
Wednesday, Dec. 1, 7:00pm City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco. With Peter Dale Scott
Please join award-winning investigative journalist and author Russ Baker for a talk, reading and signing of his book Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Past Fifty Years. Baker’s work has been praised by Gore Vidal, who calls it one of the most important books of the decade, as well as by Dan Rather and Bill Moyers. Full of stunning major revelations and characterized by massive, rigorous documentation, Family of Secrets will change the way you view power in America.
Baker will talk about the story we missed explaining the Bush phenomenon, about continuities between Bush and Obama administrations—and why significant change is so hard to achieve. He will also speak about the new nonprofit investigative news site www.whowhatwhy.com and its aspirations to change how we cover the events that influence our lives and our world.
Baker’s talk will be followed by an extended question and answer session and then a signing.
JOIN JOHN PERRY BARLOW AND AUTHOR RUSS BAKER THIS TUESDAY, 7PM, SAN FRANCISCO….
With Karl Rove’s and Laura Bush’s books out recently, and George W. Bush’s own “Decision Points” due out with much fanfare in November, this is a perfect time to learn (and not from Karl, Laura or George) what really happened in this country the past eight years. Learn how the staggering Bush epoch evolved from unexamined occurrences over the past half century, and how it is still influencing White House policy today. Learn the back story to current controversies, from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster to the continuing hostilities in the Middle East. Learn about CIA-financial-military networks and their ability to shape presidencies.
Please join award-winning investigative journalist and author Russ Baker for a talk, reading and signing of his book Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Past Fifty Years. Baker’s work has been praised by Gore Vidal, who called it one of the most important books of the decade, as well as by Dan Rather and Bill Moyers. Full of stunning major revelations, Family of Secrets will change the way you view power in America. Russ will be introduced by John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist, poet and Internet pioneer. The talk will be followed by an extended question and answer session and then a signing.
WHEN: THIS TUESDAY, JUNE 15, FROM 7-830, WHERE: Borders Books in the Stonestown Galleria, 19th Avenue at Winston Drive, San Francisco. Easy parking and public transportation.
With Karl Rove’s and Laura Bush’s books out recently, and George W. Bush’s own “Decision Points” due out with much fanfare in November, this is a perfect time to learn (and not from Karl, Laura or George) what really happened in this country the past eight years. Learn how the staggering Bush epoch evolved from unexamined occurrences over the past half century, and how it is still influencing White House policy today. Learn the back story to current controversies, from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster to the continuing hostilities in the Middle East. Learn about CIA-financial-military networks and their ability to shape presidencies.
Please join author Russ Baker for a talk, reading and signing of his book Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Past Fifty Years. Baker’s work has been praised by Gore Vidal, who called it one of the most important books of the decade, Dan Rather, and Bill Moyers. Full of stunning major revelations, Family of Secrets will change the way you view power in America. The talk will be followed by an extended question and answer session and then a signing.
THIS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, FROM 7-830, at the New York University Bookstore in its brand new location, 726 Broadway at Waverly, just below Astor Place. Easy access to most subway lines.
Russ Baker appears on the PBS station WGBH with host Emily Rooney to discuss the stunning revelations contained in his new book on the Bush Dynasty,”Family of Secrets.”
Interview topics range from George Bush Senior’s secret life in intelligence work preceding his directorship of the CIA; answers to why the elder Bush cannot remember where he was the day John F. Kennedy was shot; new information on George W. Bush’s missing military service; and the back story to the American relationship to Saudi Arabia and oil. Watch Now!
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.
“One of the most important books of the past ten years”—Gore Vidal
“A tour de force….Family of Secrets has made me rethink even those events I witnessed with my own eyes”—Dan Rather
“Russ Baker’s work stands out for its fierce independence, fact-based reporting, and concern for what matters most to our democracy…A lot of us look to Russ to tell us what we didn’t know”—Bill Moyers
“This is the book people will be mining for years to come”—David Margolick, Newsweek and Vanity Fair
“An investigative gem filled with juicy revelations”
--Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times
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November 14, 2010 12:39 am | 
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