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^ Read * Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights by Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights In this, her final and perhaps greatest book, Molly Ivins launches a counterattack on the executive branch’s shredding of our cherished Bill of Rights. And every thoughtful American ought to be listening.”–The Buffalo News“With her characteristic acerbic humor, Ivins and colleague Dubose dissect the myriad attacks the Bush administration has made on the Bill of Rights and how ordinary citizens have fought back.”–Booklist“Ivins’ own de
| Title | : | Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.38 (560 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812973089 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-06 |
| Language | : | English |
Bush, Shrub and Bushwhacked, were also New York Times bestsellers. She then went on to work for The Texas Observer, as co-editor, and The New York Times, as a political reporter and later as Rocky Mountain bureau chief. Her first book, Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She?, spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list. He was editor of T
. 23)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. (Many of these cases were quickly resolved once the ACLU got involved.) If, as Ivins and Dubose hint, there's a concerted assault on our freedoms, there 's still plenty of ineptitude: in one instance they cite, the feds accidentally sent top secret records of illegal electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists to the suspects' lawyers. (Oct. All rights reserved. In between there are mentions of journalists jailed for shielding sources, librarians gagged by Kafkaesque government secrecy rules and a slew of citizens arrested for peaceably protesting in the vicinity of the president. As for the Second Amendment, the authors castigate Presi
was you ever bit by a dead bee? David W. Straight "Was you ever bit by a dead bee?" is the question Eddie (Walter Brennan) likes to ask in the Bogart-Bacall movie To Have and Have Not. The answer is "Yes Indeed!" as Molly Ivins shows in her posthumous book. But I don't really think of her as a bee, but maybe a Texas-size horsefly bit. "A litany of impeachable offenses" according to Amazon Customer. This is another volume the recorded version of which I listened to. I guess I should be glad recorded versions exist, or I may not have the time to read 'em all! (Indeed, I'm forced to disagree with another reviewer who didn't like the recorded version. I could just picture Molly reci. Molly's Best and Most Disturbing Book Richard Wales Molly Ivins' last book, her third about GW Bush written with Lou Dubose, has all the Ivins trademarks, such as her keen observations, her sense of outrage and disbelief, coupled with her Texas sense of humor. In "Shrub" and "Bushwhacked" the two authors did their best to warn America
In this, her final and perhaps greatest book, Molly Ivins launches a counterattack on the executive branch’s shredding of our cherished Bill of Rights. And every thoughtful American ought to be listening.”–The Buffalo News“With her characteristic acerbic humor, Ivins and colleague Dubose dissect the myriad attacks the Bush administration has made on the Bill of Rights and how ordinary citizens have fought back.”–Booklist“Ivins’ own description of the book is spot-on: ‘a hopeful and gladsome romp through some serious terrain.”–The New York Observer“A truly compelling read filled with devastating humor and razor-sharp commentary.”–Austinist. With devastating humor and keen eyes for deceit and hypocrisy, they show how severe these incursions have become, and they ask us all to take an active role in protecting the Bill of Rights.Praise for Bill of Wrongs
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