Bestsellers
Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting
Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media
by Bill Sammon
Strategery is the latest installment of Bill Sammon's triumphant series on
the historic presidency of George W. Bush. First came Fighting Back, the
riveting account of Bush's courageous handling of the tense period immediately
after September 11; then there was Misunderestimated, which took the story of
Bush's presidency up to the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Now
Strategery picks up where Misunderestimated left off, tracing John Kerry's
challenge to the President, the hard-fought and hard-won election, and the
tumultuous year that followed -- in which George W. Bush would consistently
(though usually without any credit at all from a virulently hostile liberal
media ) outwit his foes at home and abroad.
Strategery is the latest installment of Bill Sammon's triumphant series on
the historic presidency of George W. Bush. First came Fighting Back, the
riveting account of Bush's courageous handling of the tense period immediately
after September 11; then there was Misunderestimated, which took the story of
Bush's presidency up to the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Now
Strategery picks up where Misunderestimated left off, tracing John Kerry's
challenge to the President, the hard-fought and hard-won election, and the
tumultuous year that followed -- in which George W. Bush would consistently
(though usually without any credit at all from a virulently hostile liberal
media ) outwit his foes at home and abroad.
In writing Strategery (a term borrowed by good-humored White House officials
from a Saturday Night Live skit), Sammon drew upon his unprecedented access to
President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their most senior advisers. No other
journalist has interviewed the president more often than Sammon. Here he
chronicles the savage harassment that leftist activists directed at Karl Rove,
and Rove's audacious and ultimately successful plan for defeating John Kerry;
how the Bush White House weathered the astounding partisan distortion of the
Abu Ghraib scandal by the top talking heads of the media establishment; and the
ferocious rough-and-tumble of the 2004 presidential campaign -- including the
full story of the forged documents CBS publicized in a failed attempt to
torpedo the Bush presidency. Nor does Sammon gloss over the hard times: he
details with refreshing candor Bush's rocky performance at a White House press
conference and other stumbles, including the disastrous nomination
of Harriet Myers to the Supreme Court. Sammon takes his story right up to
Bush's appointment of conservative John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court and his nomination of another conservative, Samuel Alito, to another
Court vacancy -- detailing how the consistently "misunderestimated" President
once again caught his enemies flat-footed and outmaneuvered them with aplomb.
Bill Sammon takes you inside the Bush White House:
Bush's astonishing willingness to sacrifice his prestige and even his
presidency for a cause he believed in: the removal of Saddam Hussein -- a
dangerous dictator who posed a grave threat to America
How George W. Bush was able to whittle away at John Kerry's substantial
early lead in the polls and ultimately defeat him in the general election
The clumsy and even thuggish way that John Kerry and John Edwards tried to
sway social conservatives away from the Bush-Cheney ticket
Abu Ghraib: how the Leftist media establishment embarked on a hysterical
feeding frenzy that was out of all proportion to the misdeeds of a handful of
prison guards
Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger: how the liberal press
cravenly downplayed and even blamed the Republicans for his purloining of
classified documents that might have proved embarrassing in the hands of the
9-11 Commission
How the Swift Boat veterans dared to tell the truth about John Kerry's
service in Vietnam -- and thereby almost single-handedly saved the nation from
a Kerry presidency
Teresa Heinz Kerry: how her strange behavior and even more bizarre
utterances threw a monkey wrench into her husband's campaign, despite the
liberal media's best efforts to spin her positively
Zell Miller: how this Democratic Senator's courageous speech galvanized the
President's supporters and severely damaged the Kerry campaign
"Fake but accurate": how Dan Rather and Mary Mapes of CBS brazenly brushed
aside and ignored evidence that documents damaging to Bush were inauthentic in
their zeal to destroy him and elect John Kerry President
The full story of the strange exit polls that predicted a Kerry landslide
and led to immense Democratic overconfidence on the afternoon of election day
2004
How even Osama bin Laden aided the Bush reelection campaign by all but
endorsing Kerry in a videotape released just before the election
Why, in a stunning departure from precedent, the talking heads on the
networks hemmed and hawed and dithered and stalled and refused to call the
presidential election of 2004 until dawn broke on the day after the election
How, by sharpening the debate on Iraq, the White House opened a major rift
among Democrats
The Koran-in-the-toilet story: how yet another media-fueled scandal turned
out to be just an unsubstantiated rumor spread for political reasons
How Bush's deep faith in God led him through the darkest moments of his
presidency
Bush's tough new stance on immigration and other reasons conservatives had
to cheer as Bush began his second term
Rove's predictions: why he thinks that Hillary will easily win the
Democratic nomination in 2008, but that she will find winning the general
election far more difficult
Hurricane Katrina: how the Democratic governor of Louisiana and Democratic
mayor of New Orleans mishandled the situation with astonishing fecklessness --
and then blamed (who else?) George W. Bush
Evidence that, contrary to media reports, the situation of Al-Qaeda in Iraq
was growing positively desperate by the summer of 2005
The Harriet Miers debacle: why she was unable to gain the support even of
conservatives
The next step in the terror war? How Condoleeza Rice, appalled by Syria's
bullying of Lebanon and harboring of terrorists, has taken a hard line against
Syria and sought ways to ratchet up pressure on Damascus
Bush's legacy according to one close observer: "if Iraq succeeds, he's going
to go down as a world historical figure. I mean, it's going to change the face
of the planet, and he'll deserve all the credit in the world"
History will remember the Bush Presidency as one of the most trying periods
in America's history, when she was led by one of her most courageous and adept
(and most misunderstood) leaders. Bill Sammon's Stategery gives you a unique
and absorbing glimpse into that historic Presidency.
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