{"product_id":"utter-incompetents-ego-and-ideology-in-the-age-of-bush-9780312385668","title":"Utter Incompetents: Ego and Ideology in the Age of Bush","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Tom Oliphant is one of the true chroniclers of America. He uses his wit and wisdom to offer critical, insightful, and loving observations of our politics, culture, and society. He is the Will Rogers of our time.\" ---Madeleine Albright \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe collapse of the Bush presidency is a broadly acknowledged fact. By any fair assessment, much of the past seven years has been disastrous. The challenge is to understand why. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom domestic policy to international goofs, from soaring energy prices to the health care crisis---Thomas Oliphant tackles it all, closely inspecting the initial projections and promises of Bush and his key senior of?cials, and the ways in which they lost control of these well-publicized and overcon?dent plans. By comparing their rhetoric to their dismal record, Oliphant provides a historic analysis of the Bush administration---showing how a system so seemingly competent and mechanized could fail so miserably, and with such frequency. \u003ci\u003eUtter Incompetents\u003c\/i\u003e is at its heart a searching look at the George W. Bush administration, its policies, and the legacy that it will leave behind on January 20, 2009.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Oliphant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 6.34w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312385668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Oliphant has been a correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e since 1968 and its Washington columnist since 1989. He is a native of Brooklyn, a product of La Jolla High School in California, and a 1967 graduate of Harvard. He was one of three editors on special assignment who managed the \u003ci\u003eGlobe\u003c\/i\u003e's coverage of Boston's traumatic school desegregation, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1975. He has also won the writing award given by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He has appeared on ABC's \u003ci\u003eNightline, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFace the Nation, The Today Show, Good Morning \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand CBS News' \u003ci\u003eThis Morning\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been named one of the country's top ten political writers and one of Washington's fifty most influential journalists by \u003ci\u003eThe Washingtonian \u003c\/i\u003emagazine. Mr. Oliphant lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, CBS correspondent Susan Spencer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45053396713587,"sku":"9780312385668","price":26.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_1c8471e7-edbd-457e-8f1d-9b9a814fd9b2.jpg?v=1779969834","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/utter-incompetents-ego-and-ideology-in-the-age-of-bush-9780312385668","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}