In the liveliest critical book on the president published in this election year, Eric Alterman and Mark Green show how George W. Bush’s administration has been built on level upon level of misstatements, half truths, and distortions. With a presidential election approaching, the authors reveal how this pattern of deception produces failed policies:

• how Bush’s serial dissembling about Iraq and terrorism has angered the world and hindered homeland security
• how Bush’s manipulation of economic data tries to hide the greatest reverse redistribution of wealth and largest job losses since Herbert Hoover
• how Bush and his administration have broken more treaties than any other in American history

The Book on Bush will be the definitive critique of the Bush presidency, written by two bestselling analysts and timed to the beginning of the 2004 election season.