Gene Stone: The 12-Step Bush Recovery Program
Stone, Gene. The 12-Step Bush Recovery Program: A Lifesaving Guide to Shaking Off the Horrors of the Last Eight Years, with Practical Advice on Relapse, Remission, and Recounts (New York: Villard, 2008)
Gene Stone, author of The Bush Survival Bible and Duck! The Dick Cheney Survival Bible, has returned with an end-of-the-era book on recovering from the Bush administration. Modeled after AA's twelve-step program--but without any reliance on a "higher power"--Bush Recovery is a series of brief essays by various authors. The three best, in my opinion, are Matthew Yglesias' "The Media" (pp. 37-9), James Gleick's "Science" (pp. 104-6), and Mel White's "Gays and Lesbians" (pp. 113-5).
It's a slim book, but could be a good place to start for those whose New Year's resolutions involve recovering from Bushism. (Bush supporters call our lack of gullibility about his administration "Bush Derangement Syndrome," but we know better.) Although we may not have to watch the mainstream corporate media with quite as much vigilance in the future as we did during the Bush administration, we must prevent his White House tenure from being whitewashed.
An excerpt from the book is available here from the publisher.