MP3 of interview with Russ Baker, author of Family of Secrets (book about the Bush clan)

[JohnyCanuck]

Russ Baker is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of Family of Secrets- – the Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years. He has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Village Voice and Esquire. He has served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, and is the founder of WhoWhatWhy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organization.

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2009/12/17/podcast-show-16/

Direct link to MP3: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/podpress_trac/web/1208/0/BF.0016.Baker_20091126.mp3

[JohnyCanuck]

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[JohnyCanuck]

2. Some reviews of "Family of Secrets

Praise for Family of Secrets:
“One of the most important books of the past ten years.”—Gore Vidal

“A tour de force … Family of Secrets has made me rethink even those events I witnessed with my own eyes.”—Dan Rather

“Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, and faultlessly measured in its judgments, Family of Secrets is nothing less than a first historic portrait in full of the Bush dynasty and the era it shaped. From revelation to revelation, insight to insight—from the Kennedy assassination to Watergate to the oil and financial intrigues that lie behind today's headlines—this is a sweeping drama of money and power, unseen forces, and the emblematic triumph of a lineage that sowed national tragedy. Russ Baker’s Family of Secrets is sure to take its place as one of the most startling and influential works of American history and journalism.”—Roger Morris, former senior staff member, National Security Council, and author of Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician and Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America

“Left-wing paranoia? Baker, a solid investigative journalist, works hard to back up his claims – a reader could choke on the complex, interwoven details in Family of Secrets. He's a man on a mission, desperate to stop the “methods of stealth and manipulation that ... reflect a deeper ill: the American public's increasingly tenuous hold upon the levers of its own democracy.”—San Diego Union-Tribune


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To Understand the U.S. Today, Read This Book, December 10, 2009
By Lydia (Washington, DC) -

Russ Baker's Family of Secrets about the Bush family provides a highly readable road map of how U.S. decision-makers at the pinnacle of power think and act and how their thoughts and actions have shaped our country's course over most of the past century. Read this meticulously documented and beautifully written book and you'll understand why we're in the mess we're in and why the policies shaped by the Bush family and their cohorts will continue to be a danger to our own citizens and people all over the globe until we KNOW and act to stop their hidden agendas.

A courageous book, December 9, 2009
By Gary Ruskin (Fairfax, CA) -
Russ Baker is one of America's finest investigative journalists. In Family of Secrets, Baker tackles the complex story surrounding the rise of the Bush family in American politics. The result is nothing less than a complete and disturbing re-evaluation of American history during the last half-century.

Family of Secrets is a must read for anyone who cares about modern American history or politics. The sections on the Watergate and the assassination of President Kennedy are especially startling and intriguing. This is the work of a bona fide independent journalist, and it puts to shame so much of what passes as journalism these days.

No doubt, the Bush family will strive to discredit this book. But it will be hard to do, because Family of Secrets is so richly documented, with more than 1,000 footnotes.


http://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government/dp/1608190064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261312880&sr=8-1