Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild
by Greg Palast
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Author: Greg PalastEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-24
ISBN: 0452288312
Number of pages: 402
Publisher: Plume
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Book Review: Required Reading for Every American
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is crammed with information and (a novelty for the times we live in), truth, as opposed to 'truthiness,' This is the real stuff in largely undiluted form, so be prepared: it can be dense and at times, a bit confusing to remember all the players, although Palst does his best to make reading about greedy scoundrels doing nasty things fun.
Palast is a hard nosed detective-his years as a fraud investigator have been put to good use in reinventing himself as an investigative journalist par excellence. While Greg Palast should be a household name here in the states, he is almost completely unknown in his native land. Luckily for us he found a home with the bbc, or these stories might never have found their way into print. Excellently researched and brilliantly written in an engaging, witty and ascerbic style, Palast's stories are so potent that one reviewer was compelled to say they may even alter history. This is no exaggeration. As I write this and the investigation of the dismissal of the 9 prosecuting judges goes forward, a story appeared a couple of days ago in a Chicago paper linking that story with GOP caging lists, those same lists which came into Palast's possession shortly before the 2004 election. In a recent talk, Palst noted that in one intercepted memo, Karl Rove gloated that the caging list story had yet to surface in the american press. Better wipe that smug grin off your pudgy face Mr Rove. It ain't over until the fat ummmm... person sings.
This is a mind bogglingly dense expose on the infighting between the newcons and BIg Oil over the Iraq war and economic policy (hint, it WAS about oil, just not in the way we thought!), the aformentioned caging lists and throwing out of "provisional votes" in the 2004 election, hurricane Katrina mismanagement and god knows what else. I'm only halfway through the thing.
What distinguishes Palast from othe Bush bashers etc is that he's actually interested in the Truth rather than pumping up his own ego. He works harder than the rest and has a way of getting people who should know better to spill their guts into his hidden digital recorder. He also has a knack for procuring confidential documents that shed light on the interests and actual reasons behind our foreign and domestic policy decisions and who really shapes them. By the way, Bush is rarely on the "A" list of policy makers, if on the list at all.
There is an edge to Mr Palast's writing. He is in his own words, "not a nice person". He can be very tough on people and is not above holding a personal grudge. A case in point is Al Gore. Palast seems to hold such a grudge-he felt spurned by Mr Gore (although I forget the details.) Palast obviously identifies with working class people and resents those who have had the benefit of economic privilege. In his defense, he is a 'nonpartisan frat boy basher', but when he gives Mr Gore a going over it seems beneath him in its vitriol and personal malice.
I don't usually read political books- but this one is different. It abounds in insight, intelligence and is steeped in irony. It is hard to put down. I wish that every american, regardless of political persuasion, would read it. But you and I both know that tragically, they won't.
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Summary of Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans--Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild
In his most provocative and caustically funny book yet, Greg Palast, author of the national bestseller The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, once again gives us the straight scoop on the stories that Big Media won?t report. Digging up reams of documents marked ?secret? and ?confidential,? Palast provides the latest lowdown on Bush?s secret plans to seize Iraq?s oil, the fix planned for the 2008 election, who drowned New Orleans, and the horror and the humor of the War on Terror. With diligent detective work, moral outrage, and a keen sense of the absurd, Palast takes on the ?armed and dangerous clowns that rule us? as only he can.
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