Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush

by Jim Hightower

America in 2004 is color coded—and it’s not just a matter of red, white, and blue. The terror alert bounces from yellow to orange. The economy offers up a hundred shades of red ink. The environment is turning brown. National security is cloaked in gray shadows. And Jim Hightower covers it all with uncommon insight, political fearlessness, and laugh-out-loud humor.

America’s #1 populist gives us Let’s Stop Beating Around the Bush—a hard- hitting, fact-filled review of the real state of the union that you won’t get from the establishment media. With his daily radio commentaries and award-winning monthly newsletter, no one has chronicled the madness of King George the W, the wimpiness of corporate Democrats, and the aggressive avarice of Wall Street with the thoroughness and tenacity of Hightower. Now he brings that investigative punch into this wild and woolly book of fiery essays.

With his satirical “Six Perfectly Good Reasons to Re-elect George W. Bush;” his mix of damning indictments and uplifting stories; and side bars, cartoons, games, and puzzles, Hightower has done the impossible: He has created a subversive read that makes politics fun again.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

256 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2004

About the author

James Allen Hightower is an American syndicated columnist, progressive political activist, and author. From 1983 to 1991 he served as elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture.

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Woo Hoo! Bush is gone. What will Hightower have to write about now? Hopefully nothing, but the probability is not good. He will just have less material and it will be tougher to complain since the Democrats will fix everything (like they did when they took over congress in 2006). Oh right they forgot they were going to fix everything.

[May Sinclair · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'd give this book a 10 star rating if I could! I recommend this book be read by everyone. We need to know what actually happened during the Bush Administration. We already feel the results, but this book is full of the actions that lead us all to the state of our nation's unhealthy economic and social position.
As Hightower names names and quotes quotes he also adds in plenty of public statistics that are alarming rather than tediously boring.
It's not just another gloomy bokk about what happened. It's a book issuing a message to individuals that we do count and can make a difference. How? By demanding that those people we vote for, at all levels of government, do what they say they will do. And if they don't, remove them from their elected office. By not being fearful of bullies, the bullying will stop.

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

The message was good, but I didn't like the style.