AUTHOR : JOE CONASON
Joe Conason: It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush
Weblink: http://www.joeconason.com/
REVIEWS:
A masterfully rational and lucid writer . . . [this is] a serious, focused, and well-reasoned call to awakening.
--Daily Kos
[Conason] ably catalogs the Bush administration's attempts to subvert civil liberties.
--The New York Times Book Review
[Conason] offers pithy insights into each central character in the post-September 11 drama, including Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, and John Yoo . . . [and] a well-written account of an administration bent on establishing authoritarian executive power.
--The New York Review of Books
Conason eloquently warns of the danger of American authoritarianism.
--Naomi Wolf, The Guardian
Joe Conason is national correspondent for The New York Observer, where he writes a weekly column distributed by Creators Syndicate. He is also a columnist for Salon.com, and the Director of the Nation Institute Investigative Fund. His writing and reporting have appeared in many publications, including Harpers, The Guardian, The Nation, and The New Republic. He also appears frequently on television and radio (notably as a regular Friday guest on Air America's The Al Franken Show). He lives with his wife in New York City.
His books Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth, and The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, with Gene Lyons, were both national bestsellers; his latest book, It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush, was released in February 2007.