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from going public with the stories they told. They did so because they refused to remain quiet when their government failed their interests—or more important, the larger public interest. To single any one of them out would be to unfairly neglect others. They represent the best of this great nation.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

MOLLY IVINS’ column is syndicated to more than three hundred newspapers from Anchorage to Miami. A three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, she is the former co-editor of The Texas Observer and the former Rocky Mountain bureau chief for The New York Times. Her freelance work has appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, and other publications. She has a B.A. from Smith College and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. Her first book, Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?, spent more than twelve months on the New York Times bestseller list. Her book with Lou Dubose on George W. Bush’s years as governor of Texas, Shrub, was a national bestseller.

LOU DUBOSE has worked as a journalist in Texas for twenty years. He has been editor of The Texas Observer and politics editor of The Austin Chronicle, and is co-author of Boy Genius: Karl Rove, the Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush. His freelance work has appeared in The Nation, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, the Toronto Globe and Mail, the Liberty, Texas, Vindicator, and other publications. He lives with his wife, Jeanne Goka, in Austin.

ALSO BY MOLLY IVINS AND LOU DUBOSE

Shrub: The Short but Happy

Political Life of George W. Bush

ALSO BY MOLLY IVINS

You Got to Dance with Them

What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years

Nothin’ but Good Times Ahead

Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?

COPYRIGHT © 2003 BY MOLLY IVINS AND LOU DUBOSE

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Ivins, Molly.

Bushwhacked: life in George W. Bush’s America / by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose.

p. cm.

Includes index.

eISBN 1-4000-9535-2

1. United States—Politics and government—2001– 2. Bush, George W. (George

Walker), 1946—Ethics. 3. Political corruption—United States. 4. United States—

Economic conditions—2001– 5. United States—Social conditions—1980–

I. Dubose, Lou. II. Title.

E902.I95 2003

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eBook Info

Title:

Bushwhacked

Creator:

Molly Ivins

Creator:

Lou Dubose

Format:

OEB

Identifier:

Ivin_1400095352

Language:

en

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Introduction

1. Aloha, Harken

2. Julia Jeffcoat’s Jobless Recovery

3. Class War

4. The Blues In Belzoni

5. Leave No Child Behind

6. Green Rabbits and Yellow Streams

7. Kill the Messenger

8. Ready to Eat?

9. Dick, Dubya, and Wyoming Methane

10. Warm in the White House

11. The United States of Enron

12. Army Surplus: Two Veterans at Enron

13. God in the White House

14. Dubya Bush’s Bench

15. Shrub II: The Empire Strikes Back

16. State of the Union

17. What Is to Be Done?

Endnotes

Sources

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Other Books by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose

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