Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order

Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order
ISBN-10
0393059170
ISBN-13
9780393059175
Series
Cruel and Unusual
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
343
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Author
Mark Crispin Miller

Description

In "Cruel and Unusual," Mark Crispin Miller exposes what he calls the Bush Republicans' contempt for democratic practice, their bullying religiosity, their reckless militarism, and their apocalyptic views of the economy and the planet.

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