What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles: Current Affairs

by Bush Chronicles and Eliot Weinberger

Essayist Eliot Weinberger sets his sights on the Bush team with brilliant, thought-provoking, funny consequences.

Written for publication in magazines abroad, translated into sixteen languages, and collected here for the first time, Eliot Weinberger's chronicles of the Bush era range from first-person journalism to political analysis to a kind of documentary prose poetry. The book begins with the inauguration of George W. Bush in January...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811216381
• ISBN13: 9780811216388
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Emotional and Gut Wrenching

As the publisher of The Iraq War Blog, An Iraqi Family's Inside View of the First Year of the Occupation, I was absolutely amazed at the accuracy of Mr. Weinberger's perceptions of the Bush administration, it's cabal of evildoers, and the true conditions surrounding the war in Iraq. I am currently working on a book on the Bush administration and in the past three years, I have read nearly 200 books, and countless magazine articles and stories, and I must say, with all due apologies to other authors, that What Happened Here is the best book I have read in this genre. The simplicity and emotion with which Mr. Weinberger has detailed his observations are what make this book what it is: a great piece of literature that must be read by everyone, everywhere.