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Author Conason, Joe.

Title It can happen here : authoritarian peril in the age of Bush / Joe Conason.

Publication Info. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.93 CONASON    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.931 C74I    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 238 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-227) and index.
Contents Introduction: It's (still) a free country -- The "post 9/11 worldview" of Karl Rove -- Lawlessness and order -- State secrets and unofficial propaganda --The corporate state of grace -- The revenge of Nixon's heirs.
Summary For the first time since the Nixon era, Americans have reason to doubt the future--or even the presence--of democracy. We live in a society where government conspires with big business and big evangelism; where ideologues and religious zealots attack logic and the scientific method; and where the ruling party encourages xenophobic nationalism based on irrational, manufactured fear. The party in power seems to seek a perpetual state of war to hold on to power, and they are willing to lie, cheat, and steal to achieve their ends. The question must be asked: Are we headed toward the end of American democracy? In this impassioned, yet fact-based look at the state of the nation, Conason shows how and why America has been wrenched away from its founding principles and is being dragged toward authoritarianism.--From publisher description.
Subject United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
Authoritarianism -- United States.
Democracy -- United States.
Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946- -- Political and social views.
Conservatism -- United States.
Big business -- Political aspects -- United States.
Right-wing extremists -- United States.
ISBN 9780312356057
0312356056
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