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House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
by
Craig Unger
Newsbreaking and controversial -- an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud and explains its impact on American foreign policy, business, and national security. House of Bush, House of Saud begins with a politically explosive question: How is it that two days after 9/11, when U.S. air traff...more
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
September 28th 2004
by Scribner
(first published 2004)
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I read this book in the Summer of 2004, when heartbroken and miserable. I decided to learn about American politics, probably on the assumption that it is easier and more interesting to introduce new complications in your life than to solve old problems.
This book's primary contention is that the close relationship between
the Bush family and the House of Saud that rules Saudi Arabia has
blinded American policy to the Saudi origins of international
terrorism. This book is as interesting as Richard C...more
This book's primary contention is that the close relationship between
the Bush family and the House of Saud that rules Saudi Arabia has
blinded American policy to the Saudi origins of international
terrorism. This book is as interesting as Richard C...more
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House of Bush, House of Saud delves into the relationship between the Bush crime family and the Saudi Royal family. It also goes into the Bin Laden family and their interactions with both, as well as stuff about the Carlyle Group and the allegations that members of the Saudi Royal family flowed money to Cial-queda. After all there was a captured high level cial-queda op that blabbed that members of the Saudi Royal family and other super wealthy Saudis helped Cial-queda and knew 9/11 was going to...more
I did not want to read this because of the title. Then I saw it was well documented so I could cross check with other sources. I read it once during the run up to Bush43's Iraq war. I have read it 2 times over the years since then. I found it a useful background to later books about the war and about the history of the bin Laden family. I am currently reading Peter Galbraith's (2006), The End of Iraq, and have found it useful to go back to Unger's book.
I heartly recommend it to those wanting bac...more
I heartly recommend it to those wanting bac...more
I suspected, going into this, that it would be a sensationalized and unreliable account about the decades' long relationship between the faction of America's elite (most currently represented by George W. and his clique) and the ruling dynasty of Saudi Arabia. My suspicions were about 75-80% correct.
Craig Unger misrepresents several facts surrounding the US's response to transnational terrorism beginning with the Carter presidency. He draws questionable conclusions about al Qaeda's leadership a...more
Craig Unger misrepresents several facts surrounding the US's response to transnational terrorism beginning with the Carter presidency. He draws questionable conclusions about al Qaeda's leadership a...more
There's no doubt that many Americans, especially of the liberal variety, are still seethingly full of hate for President George W. Bush. Most of us are angry about our lot in life, the falsehood of the "American Dream," and the perceived fall of our "great" country. While none of these things can actually be pinned on the shoulders of the Bush clan, Craig Unger carefully and with great detail enumerates dozens of reasons why the Bushes actions, especially in regards to policies and business with...more
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Normally, I try to find something in the book that makes it not eligible for a 5 stars rating because nothing is perfect. Most of the time there's is something in the book that takes away that 5th star. This book is not one of those.
It's full of information, told in away that keeps you anticipating as if it's a drama, and most importantly all these information and story lines are backed by references to sources including books, congressional records, declassified memos and reports.
It might be a...more
It's full of information, told in away that keeps you anticipating as if it's a drama, and most importantly all these information and story lines are backed by references to sources including books, congressional records, declassified memos and reports.
It might be a...more
When this book came out, author and investigative reporter Unger was accused of writing a highly political book. The accusation possibly holds merit, but then, there is probably also no way to write a book like this and have it not be political. Unger himself insists he was not trying to write a Republican vs. Democrat book, merely a book about the relationship between one political family in America and one Royal Family in the Middle East. The book puts together what really is a documented and...more
It's amazing how little of this information the average American knows. Before reading this book, I didn't know a lot of this information either. For example, it's shocking that under the Reagan administration Saddam Hussein was considered an ally of the U.S. - that fact never seemed to recieve much attention in the mainstream news media. Nor did the Bush family's relationship with the Saudi Royal family. If it weren't for Michael Moore and brave journalists like this author, very few Americans...more
Although it is difficult to know how biased the author may or may not be, this book contains some very powerful and disturbing detail and facts which have the potential to outrage the reader whilst instilling a bit of "I just threw up in my mouth" nausea at the same time. If you despise Bush as I do, this book is for you. Conspiracy theorist I am not, this book nevertheless had the power to get me thinking and I like that.
Feb 20, 2010
Joe
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Anyone with a brain!
Shelves:
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Another book every American needs to read. If half of it is true we were governed by criminals including Bush and Cheney! Anyon who believes we have a liberal media is way off base. I do not remeber hearing about the Sauds and bin Ladens allowed to fly whe the rest of America couldn't. It should have been on every news channel. That is just one example of the corruption of the Bush admistration.
This book greatly shows the connection between the Bush family and the Saudi's, greatly responsible for some of the funding of Islamic radicalism and how Osama Bin Laden himself was once a Saudi thus how the US might have been in bed with the Devil and not even have paid much attention to it. It also shows how the war in Iraq has distracted the world from the real war on terror, the funding given to setup radical Islamic camps all over the world. A great read for someone looking to learn more ab...more
House of Bush, House of Saudi depicts an uncomfortable and suspicious relationship the Bush family has with the world's biggest oil family and insinuates a relationship of ominous stature. Unger makes great arguments between the relationships these two families on how a collusion between the Bush family with the Royal family for personal gain.
A VERY interesting exploration of the intertwinings of the Bush family & the Saudi royals. Lots of details about how the bin Ladens were airlifted out of the U.S. courtesy of the White House after 9/11. Shows the dirty politics of oil in all of its grime.
OMG,this book is very disturbing. So shameful. The whole thing. I was so upset after reading it I had to go to sleep for many hours (what I do when I am angry / upset).
Very revealing on the relationship between the Bush family and the Sauds.Some interesting backround on The Carlyle Group and contacts with the Bin Laden family
Apr 27, 2013
Lily
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2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Interest in U.S. politics
Shelves:
audio-own
Hard to know what to trust in writings like this, but added names and perspectives to events of the recent past and to current events.
A comprehensive must read for the political,socioeconomical junkie. Read it, buy it before it's banned or out of print.
I originally ordered this book from the US Amazon site because it wasn't bring published in the UK due to a difference in the libel laws.
I quite enjoy a good old conspiracy style theory and this book was a bit like a join the dots study in linking bad people to each other and to bad deeds all via a chain of one dollar bills.
By the time I got around to reading it years late, much of the more shocking material was already in the public domain and had been re-looped via political spin machines sev...more
I quite enjoy a good old conspiracy style theory and this book was a bit like a join the dots study in linking bad people to each other and to bad deeds all via a chain of one dollar bills.
By the time I got around to reading it years late, much of the more shocking material was already in the public domain and had been re-looped via political spin machines sev...more
Fun if you wear a tinfoil hat. Which sometimes I like to. But syllogistic crap in the tradition of Michael Moore.
Mar 09, 2010
Ben Bush
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I like reading lefty politics as much as the next person but this whole thing seemed pretty sloppy for my tastes.
Great research. An in-depth look at the relationship between the Bush family and Saudi royal family.
Read this a few years ago now. Great book confirming a long held belief that no Politician can be trusted.
What an eye opener in the world of politics and corruption. A must read for anyone who believes in democracy.
The Bush Family and The House of Saud have their own agenda including large sums of money!
good audio book, though it was abridged. makes you realize how little control we have....
I don't usually enjoy reading "textbook-type" writing but about a quarter of the way through, I became quite engrossed in the book. As much as I dislike Bush and most Republican-party platforms, I could recognize the parts of this book that were too anti-Bush and clearly liberally-biased. What scared me more than what Bush and his administration did was that they got away with it; where were the checks on the administration? If it happens with the Bush family, it is bound to happen again and tha...more
Interesting read. After reading this, it's hard to believe both Bushes weren't heavily influenced.
The information in this book, all thoroughly documented, shines a light on aspects of the events of 9/11 and the connection between the Bush family and the Saudi royals that has been conspicuously missing from the mainstream media. It raises painful questions about where the highest loyalties and priorities of the president and his father really lie. It's disturbing, disheartening and even kind of sickening, but it's important for as many American citizens as possible to know these things. If kn...more
Amazingly enlightening while disgustingly sickening.
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Craig Unger is an American journalist and writer. His most recent book is The Fall of the House of Bush, about the internal feud in the Bush family and the rise and collusion of the neoconservative and Christian right in Republican party politics, viewing each group's weltanschauung and efforts concerning present and potential future US policy through a distinctly negative prism. His previous work...more
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