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Investigative reporter Robert Parry reframes key chapters of American history by exploring past events that still drive the U.S. political narrative – from why the Framers junked the Articles of Confederation in favor of the Constitution, to how the modern Republican Party embraced a win-at-all-cost ethos, to why the Democrats shy away from the hard work of accountability.
AMERICA’S STOLEN NARRATIVE takes you on a journey from America’s founding – and the plotting of George Washington and James Madison – to Richard Nixon’s sabotage of Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam peace talks, on to the Watergate scandal (showing how those two dark chapters were really one continuous storyline). The book then explores the political deceptions that surrounded the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes and explains how that false history entrapped Barack Obama.
Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Parry, a 35-year veteran of Washington journalism, broke many of the stories now known as the Iran-Contra Affair while working at The Associated Press and Newsweek.
America Stolen Narrative From Washington and Madison to Nixon Reagan and the Bushes to Obama edition by Robert Parry Politics Social Sciences eBooks
Parry's tenacity for following up stories - over decades - is not only awe inspiring but what is apparently needed to get to the bottom of stories the political class in D.C. wants permanently buried. The book starts with a look at some Supreme Court decisions where the conservative members of the bench (especially Scalia) use selected passages from the Federalist Papers to support their positions as "originalists." Parry skewers these arguments, many made in direct opposition to what the framers clearly intended. (This raises the larger question about the Court's decisions in recent years - is the body of common law any longer applicable to the Supremes' decisions or are they simply pulling examples of convenience out of the air to support their prejudices?) Next up is the 1968 election where Nixon allegedly killed the on going Paris Peace Conference about the Vietnam War, an "October Surprise" that gained him the election - and allowed the war to continue for four more years. The main part of the book deals with Reagan's sundry secret activities in Iran, starting with alleged meetings of his confidants (Bush, Casey among others) prior to the 1980 election that ensured the American captives would not be released prior to his gaining office, a story that had credence from the get-go as the hostages were released within minutes of Reagan's swearing in. Then we move on to Iran Contra, massive arms deals to Iran with Israel as the middle man, and then the peculiar shift of U.S. favoritism toward Saddam as the Iraq-Iran War progressed. A theme that flows though these and other nefarious acts by those in power in Washington is how successfully they manage not only to cover their tracks, but keep them covered -when Watergate first broke the FBI refused to investigate as one example. Much of the author's time (over decades on certain stories) was spent trying to pry out who was where at a critical juncture and what was said, and how planted press articles by what might loosely be called neocon operatives and their press outlets sallied forth to discredit anyone looking a bit too hard to unearth the truth. When government officials in power want a story mushroomed it stays that way, and the list of examples shown by Parry is the heart of the book - incriminating evidence is simply disregarded, requested documents slow in coming - or "lost" - and identities redacted with paint-roller enthusiasm. Parry spent years trying to track down the identity of one couple whose possible testimony might have proved lethal to Bush Sr's administration; he finally got the names from the Bush library in 2011 - years after the couple had died. The stories Parry focuses on are not trivial; if fully known at the time of occurrence charges of treason or the basis for impeachment were at hand; how these events were covered up - and how Parry tenaciously ensured these events would not go down the memory hole of history is quite a read. (Please excuse typos - I couldn't edit this thing.)Product details
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America Stolen Narrative From Washington and Madison to Nixon Reagan and the Bushes to Obama edition by Robert Parry Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
Great
Mildly informative and relevant. Politicians will deal in what Alasdair MacIntyre signifies as 'Goods of Effectiveness' and NOT excellence.
I thought it provided some interesting facts, but there is a bit too much repetition. Probably the editor could have done a better job.
Assuming this guy's research is as good and honest as it appears, the way he connects the Republican interference in peace negotiations prior to the 1968 election, to Watergate, and once again the Republican undercover attempts to keep Iran from releasing our embassy hostages in the run up to Reagan's defeat of Carter, is chilling. My take, I'm afraid is cynical.
Though Parry clearly favors the Democrats over Republicans (as I do), his very thorough and gripping story suggests to me that no political party nor candidate has any moral compass when it comes to gaining or holding power.
I read the book with some trepidation. I was afraid this was one of those conspiracy theory kinds of books. I also did not want to believe that President H.W. Bush and Robert Gates could and would lower themselves through personal ambition to subvert a standing Democratic president to elect a Republican one--Ronald Reagan.
That Richard Nixon might do that to subvert Vietnamese peace talks to win the presidency did not surprise me, but to read and see proof that Reagan, HW Bush, and Robert Gates would do so really brought me a great deal of distress.
In the end, I couldn't poke holes in his arguments and documentation. That brought me sadness and gladness.
Sadness that Republican leaders who always trump patriotism would allow personal ambition to harm this nation for political gain. I felt gladness that at least now I know the truth. I also see this same attitude in the current Republican vendetta to subvert President Obama's programs for the sake of regaining power. Observing these real time events makes Parry's book seem plausible.
Excellent! Unfortunately, disconcerting to learn even more about the decades of success by the right-wing propaganda machine, their extreme thirst for power, their remarkable amounts of spending and deception to further unusual policies and promote otherwise unelectable candidates.
Robert Parry gets the facts and presents them in a direct way that informs. It's unsettling how hard it is to get the facts in a "post-truth" world dominated by TV entertainment that pretends to be news and outright lies that are known to be lies but are published with the same authority as proven facts. Robert Parry boxes the compass so we know the direction we are going.
Parry's tenacity for following up stories - over decades - is not only awe inspiring but what is apparently needed to get to the bottom of stories the political class in D.C. wants permanently buried. The book starts with a look at some Supreme Court decisions where the conservative members of the bench (especially Scalia) use selected passages from the Federalist Papers to support their positions as "originalists." Parry skewers these arguments, many made in direct opposition to what the framers clearly intended. (This raises the larger question about the Court's decisions in recent years - is the body of common law any longer applicable to the Supremes' decisions or are they simply pulling examples of convenience out of the air to support their prejudices?) Next up is the 1968 election where Nixon allegedly killed the on going Paris Peace Conference about the Vietnam War, an "October Surprise" that gained him the election - and allowed the war to continue for four more years. The main part of the book deals with Reagan's sundry secret activities in Iran, starting with alleged meetings of his confidants (Bush, Casey among others) prior to the 1980 election that ensured the American captives would not be released prior to his gaining office, a story that had credence from the get-go as the hostages were released within minutes of Reagan's swearing in. Then we move on to Iran Contra, massive arms deals to Iran with Israel as the middle man, and then the peculiar shift of U.S. favoritism toward Saddam as the Iraq-Iran War progressed. A theme that flows though these and other nefarious acts by those in power in Washington is how successfully they manage not only to cover their tracks, but keep them covered -when Watergate first broke the FBI refused to investigate as one example. Much of the author's time (over decades on certain stories) was spent trying to pry out who was where at a critical juncture and what was said, and how planted press articles by what might loosely be called neocon operatives and their press outlets sallied forth to discredit anyone looking a bit too hard to unearth the truth. When government officials in power want a story mushroomed it stays that way, and the list of examples shown by Parry is the heart of the book - incriminating evidence is simply disregarded, requested documents slow in coming - or "lost" - and identities redacted with paint-roller enthusiasm. Parry spent years trying to track down the identity of one couple whose possible testimony might have proved lethal to Bush Sr's administration; he finally got the names from the Bush library in 2011 - years after the couple had died. The stories Parry focuses on are not trivial; if fully known at the time of occurrence charges of treason or the basis for impeachment were at hand; how these events were covered up - and how Parry tenaciously ensured these events would not go down the memory hole of history is quite a read. (Please excuse typos - I couldn't edit this thing.)
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