What We've Lost; How the Bush Administration Has Curtailed Our Freedoms, Mortgaged Our Economy, Ravaged Our Environment, and Damaged Our Standing in the World

by Graydon Carter

• ISBN13: 9780312425272
• ISBN10: 0312425279
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

The editor ofVanity Fairmagazine offers a hard-hitting assessment of the Bush administration's first term, and its disastrous effects on America at home and abroad, in this revised paperback edition which includes new material on Bush's re-election and second term. What We've Lostaddresses the fragile state of U.S. democracy with a critical review of the Bush administration by one of our leading magazine editors, Graydon Carter. Carter expressed his deep dissatisfaction with the state of the nation in his monthly editor's letters in Vanity FairÂ--which aroused widespread comment. In this updated edition ofWhat We've Losthe provides a sweeping, painstakingly detailed account of the ruinous effects of this president's first term, and warns us what more we stand to lose following his re-election.

Author Biography

Graydon Carter has been the editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair since 1992. Previously, he was the editor of The New York Observer and the cofounder of Spy. He is the producer of the acclaimed film The Kid Stays in the Picture and the executive producer of the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning documentary 9/11. He lives in New York.

Table of Contents

To begin with...	p. 5
The president's wars	p. 11
The military	p. 47
Secrecy	p. 83
The economy	p. 103
The environment	p. 127
Education	p. 186
Health care	p. 198
The judiciary	p. 214
The state of the union	p. 254
Our reputation	p. 269
The president by the numbers	p. 287
And finally...	p. 326
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