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What Happened : Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
Overview
In the bestselling book that provoked a media sensation, former White House press secretary Scott McClellan takes readers behind the scenes of the presidency of George W. Bush. McClellan belonged to Bush's select inner circle of trusted advisors during one of the most challenging and contentious periods of recent history. Over a period of more than seven years, he witnessed day-to-day exactly how the presidency veered off course: not only by its decision to topple Saddam Hussein but by an embrace of confrontational politics in the face of an increasingly partisan Washington and hostile media. In this refreshingly clear-eyed book, McClellan provides unique perspective on what happened and why it happened the way it did, including the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, and two hotly contested presidential campaigns. He gives readers a candid look into who George W. Bush is and what he believes and explores the lessons this presidency offers the American people as we look to the future.
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- ISBN-13: 9781433214349
- ISBN-10: 1433214342
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date: April 2008
- Dimensions: 5.73 x 5.33 x 1.41 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.63 pounds
- Page Count: 10
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"I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff, and the president himself." That quote caused a flurry of excitement late last fall when Scott McClellan, President Bush's press secretary from 2003 to 2006, Bush loyalist and close aide from his Texas gubernatorial days, announced that in a new book, he was un-spinning some of the spin he'd spun: "This is not a book to settle scores. . . . What I want to do is write in detail about what I know and what I learned in hopes that this account will place the events of the time, particularly after September 11, 2001, into a framework that make sense to me, to readers and later, to historians." Now that book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and What's Wrong with Washington, read by McClellan himself, takes us behind the scenes of the Bush presidency and looks at exactly what happened to take it off course. He looks, too, at the lessons the current presidency offers as we move closer to the 2008 election.
On spin and spinners
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