Family of Secrets by Russ Baker

Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years - By Russ Backer - Paperback - November 10, 2009

The book addresses the question - How did the deeply flawed George W. Bush ascend to the highest office in the nation, what forces abetted his rise?

“One of the most important books of the past ten years.”—Gore Vidal

“In an era dominated by corporate journalism and an ideological right-wing media, Russ Baker’s work stands out for its fierce independence, fact-based reporting, and concern for what matters most to our democracy…A lot of us look to Russ to tell us what we didn’t know.” —Bill Moyers

Russ Baker is an award winning investigative journalist. He has written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Nation, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, and Esquire, and has served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. He is the founder of WhoWhatWhy/the Real News Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization, operating at www.whowhatwhy.com.