Total Page : 592
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
Publication Date : 2008 12 18
>> Not good
Sorry to say but this is one of the worst books I ve read over the last 12 months I could manage somehow to read through the pages where the author is trying to connect the Bushes to the Kennedy assassination But when I thought I was through it started all over again
I couldn t believe anything
The whole story could have found a better place in one of the tabloids
>> Exposing the Bush branch of the Power Elite
In FAMILY OF SECRETS Russ Baker has compiled an underground history of the Bush family focused primarily on Poppy ie George H W and W Much of it centers around Poppy Bush s longtime connections with the covert intelligence world starting long before his brief stint as CIA head in the Ford Administration and on W s rise which is almost totally due to family connections privilege and deception Baker connects Poppy Bush to such important events as the Kennedy Assassination and Watergate This isn t speculation either all of Baker s claims are well documented
In the case of W we get a lot of damnging information such as the mountain of evidence Baker presents that A W got his spot in the Texas Air Guard entirely due to family connections despite being unqualified and B W did in fact go AWOL and never completed his required Guard service The evidence the Bush campaign produced to back up their claim that Bush did honorably complete his service is shown by Baker to be EXTREMELY questionable despite the fact that it resulted in Dan Rather being fired and most of the media and the people accepting W s story
Along the way we get lots of interesting information and connection to other American Power Elite families such as the Harrimans and the Dulleses and many more Personally I would have liked to see more on the earlier Bushes such as Samuel and Prescott Poppy s grandfather and father respectively and their Power Elite/military industrial complex connections but since FAMILY OF SECRETS is already so large and extensive covering those earlier generations would probably more appropriate for a seperate book
Baker deserves a lot of credit for doing a lot of old fashioned research reporting and muckraking He also deserves credit for adopting a largely neutral nonpartisan tone throughout the book His progressive partisanship comes through in a few spots but for the most part he s remarkably even handed in his delivery This book is exensively documented well written and more than anything eye opening
>> Metanoiesete
I am horrified to have read Family of Secrets and to now realize that so much of what has happened over the past sixty years has been a series of schemes that have successfully duped the people bought the legislators judiciary and media in order to profit the wealthy beyond anyone s wildest dreams and to have everyone believe that cheering this evolution is the wholesome and patriotic duty of all onlookers
Wars assassinations and even depressions have worked to the successful emergence of an oil gas military profiting oligarchy whose consequences still haven t dawned on the subscribers to right wing conservative talk show hosts who seek solely the conservation and enhancement of the wealth of the already superrich The Kennedys Jimmy Carter and now Barack Obama have been inundated by the vitriol of these while saying no to all and every program to correct the abuses and end spending which solely seeks the magnification of the wealth of the already haves
I would require every legislator Judge and executive to read this book and apply to themselves the realization which Nathan helped David see when he said to the King those devastating words You are that man 2Samuel 12 7
It is imperative that these wrongdoers not be allowed to get away with these deeds through Macchiavellian maneuvers by Rove and Cheney or even by Limbaugh Murdoch and FOX NEWS
Secrecy and clandestine behaviour is frequently the ambient cover for evil doers of whatever political persuasion whereas bringing the secrets out into the light have always been the best conditions for the sustenance of LIFE LIBERTY and the PURSUIT of HAPPINESS
