Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

Liberal hack job? Puh-leez!:

If John Dean is a Liberal, I'm a Venusian. Actually, it appears to me that the reviewers who dumped on this book are the Venusians -- they clearly don't have the command of English that an American would have.

Dean's parallels are striking to someone who lived through Watergate, and so consistent with *every* other account of the Bush administration's internal workings that I've read -- including the recent book by that notorious Liberal, Richard Clarke, who served not one, not two, but three Republican... more info

A Scathing Indictment:

The various "indictments" of President Clinton, and indeed, nearly all books blaming the country's problems, or those of the whole world, on "liberals," or to make a case for the Neocon movement, all depend on innuendo, ad homienm attacks, rumors, faulty logic and/or mathematics, one-sided reporting, conspiracy theories, general viciousness, and worse. So do some of the more extreme books indicting the Bush Administration, such as those of Michael Moore.

This book, like Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying... more info

Mediocre, regardless of ideology...:

1. If any of the revelations presented in this book about the workings of the government's executive branch shock/amaze/stun/astonish you, then you are truly naive and apparently have spent the previous decades snoozing peacefully with Rip Van Winkle in the caves.

2. Ditto for the author, who must have been using a barbituate drip tube for the same amount of time...Iran-Contra (mid-level employees launching an undeclared war against a foreign government in the basement of the White House), nation building... more info

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