Worse Than Watergate or The Family

Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush

Author: John W Dean

John Dean knows what happens behind closed doors at the White House. As counsel to President Richard Nixon, he witnessed the malignant influence of excessive secrecy and its corruption of good intentions. Pundits and partisans can point fingers. Only Dean can reveal with true insider knowledge the dangers of a presidency that has crossed the line. In Worse than Watergate, Dean presents a stunning indictment of George W. Bush's administration. He assembles overwhelming evidence of its obsessive secrecy and the dire and dangerous consequences resulting from a return to Nixonian governing. Worse than Watergate connects the dots, explaining the hidden agenda of a White House shrouded in secrecy and a presidency that seeks to remain unaccountable.

Library Journal

If former White House counsel Dean of Watergate notoriety is alarmed by Bush's obsession with secrecy, then you know there's a problem. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
I	Surprisingly Nixonian	3
II	Stonewalling	22
III	Obsessive secrecy	54
IV	Secret government	93
V	Hidden agenda	131
VI	Scandals, or worse	178
	App. I	199
	App. II	207
	Chapter notes	211
	Acknowledgments	241
	Index	243

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The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty

Author: Kitty Kelley

From the First Lady of unauthorized, tell-all biography, this is the first real inside-look at the most powerful–and secretive–family in the world. From Senator Prescott Bush's alcoholism, to his son George Herbert Walker Bush's infidelities, to George Walker Bush's religious conversion, shady financial deals, and military manipulations, Kitty Kelley captures the portrait of a family that has whitewashed its own story almost out of existence.

The New York Times - Ted Widmer

… like her or not, Kelley has brought new information to bear on a family that, for better or worse, deserves her kind of royal treatment.

The New Yorker

Kelley’s reputation as an “unauthorized biographer” precedes her—how many authors feel the need to mention that they’ve “never lost a lawsuit”?—and she is best appreciated less as an investigative journalist than as a folklorist, amassing a compendium of gossip (much of it denied by her subjects). Generations of Bushes have given her plenty of material. She presents Prescott, the alcoholic senator who beat his children; George H.W., the tightfisted husband with a mink-clad mistress; and a supporting cast of uncles and brothers embroiled with dictators and Japanese Mafiosi. There is Barbara’s grudge-bearing (a streak so mean one feels almost sorry for Nancy Reagan), Laura’s reputation as a college drug source, and ex-daughter-in-law Sharon’s tales (since recanted) of cocaine at Camp David. Capping it all is George W., who—from financial shadiness and substance abuse to a suspect military record and a blithe confidence that he deserves all he has been given and more—is portrayed not as the family’s black sheep but as the epitome of its values.