When White House spokesman Scott McClellan was asked recently about The Price of Loyalty, the best-seller about former treasury secretary Paul O’Neill’s disillusionment with the Bush Administration, he replied, “I don’t do book reviews.”
If he did, it would be a new full-time job, as a recent survey of anti-Bush books by Bob Minzesheimer in USA Today makes clear. The Price of Loyalty is just one in a wave of new titles, including Nation columnist Eric Alterman and Mark Green’s The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America
It’s great that there are all these anti-Bush books out there, but this political season we, progressives, also need to lay out what we stand for. That’s the idea behind Taking Back America a forthcoming release from Nation Books I co-edited with frequent Nation contributor Robert Borosage–featuring pieces by Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Moyers, William Greider, Robert Reich and Benjamin Barber. It’s a book for anyone interested in new strategies, institutions and movements that will challenge the conservative ideas and agenda that have dominated our political life. Watch this space and your bookstore shelves for its arrival in mid April.
(You can also click here here to read my review of Ron Suskind’s The Price of Loyalty, one of the leaders in the anti-Bush book pack, which was published in the New York Times on February 4.)
