文档介绍：FAMILY OF SECRETS
The Bush Dynasty,
America’s Invisible Government,
and the Hidden History of the
Last Fifty Years
RUSS BAKER
Contents
Foreword by James Moore
1. How Did Bush Happen?
2. Poppy’s Secret
3. Viva Zapata
4. Where Was Poppy?
5. Oswald’s Friend
6. The Hit
7. After Camelot
8. Wings for W.
9. The Nixonian Bushes
10. Downing Nixon,
Part I: The Setup
11. Downing Nixon,
Part II: The Execution
12. In from the Cold
13. Poppy’s Proxy and the Saudis
14. Poppy’s Web
15. The Handoff
16. The Quacking Duck
17. Playing Hardball
18. Meet the Help
19. The Conversion
20. The Skeleton in W.’s Closet
21. Shock and . . . Oil?
22. Deflection for Reelection
23. Domestic Disturbance
24. Conclusion
Afterword
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Notes
Foreword
When a governor or any state official seeks elective national office, his (or her) reputation and what the country knows about the candidate’s background is initially determined by the
work of local and regional media. Generally, those journalists do petent job of reporting on the prospect’s record. In the case of Governor e W. Bush, Texas reporters had
written numerous stories about his failed businesses in the oil patch, the dubious land grab and questionable funding behind a new stadium for Bush’s baseball team, the Texas
Rangers, and his various political contradictions and hypocrisies while serving in Austin.
I was one of those Texas journalists. I spent about a decade trying to find accurate information on Bush’s record in the Texas National Guard. My curiosity had been prompted by his
failure to adequately answer a question I had asked him as a panelist in a televised debate with Ann Richards during the 1994 gubernatorial campaign. Eventually I published three
books on Bush and his political consigliere, Karl Rove. During Bush’s presidency, many other volumes,