Family of Secrets The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years

How

did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in

the nation, what forces abetted his rise, and-perhaps most

important-have those forces really been vanquished by Obama's election?

Award-winning investigative journalist Russ Baker gives us the answers

in Family of Secrets, a compelling and startling new take on the

Bush dynasty and the shadowy elite that has quietly steered the American

republic for the past half century and more. Baker shows how this

network of figures in intelligence, the military, oil, and finance

enabled-and in turn benefited handsomely from-the Bushes' perch at the

highest levels of government. As Baker reveals, this deeply entrenched

elite remains in power regardless of who sits in the Oval Office. Family of Secrets offers

countless disclosures that challenge the conventional accounts of such

central events as the JFK assassination and Watergate. It includes an

inside account of George W.'s cynical religious conversion and the

untold real background to the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina.

Baker's narrative is gripping, sobering, and deeply sourced. It will

change the way we understand not just the Bush years, but a half century

of postwar history-and the present.