{"product_id":"the-bush-junta-paperback-by-gary-groth","title":"The Bush Junta Paperback by Gary Groth","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eFantagraphics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2004-10-17)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781560976127\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e368.55\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome of the medium's best practitioners take on the Bush Administration just in time for the election in this outraged work of comics journalism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government\u003c\/i\u003e is an historical account of the high crimes and misdemeanors of the presidential administration of George W. Bush, as told by an international assemblage of world-class cartoonists. This fact-based, impeccably researched work of comics journalism chronicles the Bush administration in the context of the Bush family dynasty that spawned it. Topics include:\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Nazi connections of the president's grandfather, Prescott Bush;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bush family's membership in Yale's Skull and Bones Society;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormer President George Bush's connections to the CIA, the Mafia, and Big Oil;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis involvement in the October Surprise and Iran Contra scandals;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bush family's strange relationship with the family of John Hinckley (the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan);\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Panama Deception;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Persian Gulf War;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe suspicious business practices of his Bush sons, particularly with regard to the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980s;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYoung George W. Bush, his troubles with the law, his AWOL military record;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge W.'s governorship of Texas;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe electoral fraud of 2000 that resulted in his presidency;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnanswered questions about the terror attacks of September 11;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe administration's \"War on Terror\" and its erosion of civil liberties under the Patriot Act and proposed Victory Act;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe oil-based motives behind the Iraq War and how the public was deceived into supporting the war;\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe administration's shameful record on energy and the environment; and much more.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\nAlso included are profiles of the key players in the current administration, a rogues gallery including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Condoleezza Rice, and Karl Rove. Contributors to this historic comics documentary include: Alejandro Alvarez, Jaime Crespo, Kim Deitch, Jeremy Eaton, Bill Griffith, Scott Gilbert, Albo Helm, Ted Jouflas, Mark Landman, Carol Lay, Scott Marshall, Paul Mavrides, David Paleo Nunes, Ethan Persoff, Aleksandar Zograf, Larry Rodman, Spain Rodriguez, Marcel Ruyters, Kenneth Smith, Carol Swain, Seth Tobocman, Penny Van Horn, Mack White, and others. This book distills all the known facts of the Bush regimes criminality in a journalistically accurate, artistically stylish, and utterly hilarious collection.\n\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGary Groth\u003c\/b\u003e is the co-founder of \u003ci\u003eThe Comics Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and Fantagraphics Books. 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