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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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7:00pm - 8:30pm
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Borders Books, Stonestown Galleria, San Francisco
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19th Avenue and Winston Drive
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San Francisco, CA
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JOIN JOHN PERRY BARLOW AND AUTHOR RUSS BAKER THIS TUESDAY, 7PM, SAN FRANCISCO….
With Karl Rove’s and Laura Bush’s books out recently, and George W. Bush’s own “Decision Points” due out with much fanfare in November, this is a perfect time to learn (and not from Karl, Laura or George) what really happened in this country the past eight years. Learn how the staggering Bush epoch evolved from unexamined occurrences over the past half century, and how it is still influencing White House policy today. Learn the back story to current controversies, from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster to the continuing hostilities in the Middle East. Learn about CIA-financial-military networks and their ability to shape presidencies.
Please join award-winning investigative journalist and author Russ Baker for a talk, reading and signing of his book Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Past Fifty Years. Baker’s work has been praised by Gore Vidal, who called it one of the most important books of the decade, as well as by Dan Rather and Bill Moyers. Full of stunning major revelations, Family of Secrets will change the way you view power in America. Russ will be introduced by John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist, poet and Internet pioneer. The talk will be followed by an extended question and answer session and then a signing.
WHEN: THIS TUESDAY, JUNE 15, FROM 7-830,
WHERE: Borders Books in the Stonestown Galleria, 19th Avenue at Winston Drive, San Francisco. Easy parking and public transportation.
This is not the website for Russell Baker, the eminent former New York Times columnist. Rather, it’s the internet home of Russ Baker, award-winning investigative journalist and author of Family of Secrets.
If there’s still any confusion — or even if there isn’t — please read Russ Baker’s 2002 Times op-ed “I’m the Other Guy.” That should clear it up.
Mark Karlin at Buzzflash just posted a new interview with Russ Baker about Family of Secrets. Here’s a taste:
BuzzFlash: What is the biggest “bombshell” in Family of Secrets?
Russ Baker: Based on early feedback, I’d say there are a number of contenders. Could be the four chapters of never-before-revealed facts surrounding the JFK assassination. Or the evidence I have uncovered suggesting a new interpretation of Watergate. Some are most intrigued by the new examples of George W. as a naughty fellow and moral hypocrite — including on the matter of abortion. And some say that my examination of W.’s military service record is especially effective in settling the dispute over whether this eager-beaver “warrior king” skipped out on his own military obligations. Finally, some are most struck by the new evidence of a cynical calculation behind George W’s so-called religious rebirth.
For me, the big story is simply the cumulative sense, based on hundreds and hundreds of fresh facts, of the extent to which elites write our history. And the realization that, as we flee the Bush years, we remain utterly in the dark about so much.
Buy now at Amazon, 30% off, Barnes & Noble, Borders, or Indiebound.
Shocking in its disclosures, elegantly crafted, and faultlessly measured in its judgments, Family of Secrets is nothing less than a first historic portrait in full of the Bush dynasty and the era it shaped. From revelation to revelation, insight to insight-from the Kennedy assassination to Watergate to the oil and financial intrigues that lie behind today’s headlines-this is a sweeping drama of money and power, unseen forces, and the emblematic triumph of a lineage that sowed national tragedy. Russ Baker’s Family of Secrets is sure to take its place as one of the most startling and influential works of American history and journalism.
–-Roger Morris, author of Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician and Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America
Read more about the book at www.familyofsecrets.com
Family of Secrets in the News:
The Huffington Post - “The Other, Darker Side of W.”
Mediabistro - “Investigating John McCain and Barack Obama”
Mediabistro - “George W. Bush Book Fever”
Deadline Club, the New York Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, gives its award for Online News Exclusive to Russ Baker, for his Nation article Why Bush Left Texas, exploring gaps in President Bush’s military service.
RussBaker.com news | 
June 14, 2010 12:58 am | 
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