- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (Aug 31 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743255461
- ISBN-13: 978-0743255462
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.1 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (284 customer reviews)
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- #87 in Books > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Political Science > United States
- #99 in Books > History > Americas > United States > 21st Century
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The George W. Bush White House, as described by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, is a world out of kilter. Policy decisions are determined not by careful weighing of an issue's complexities; rather, they're dictated by a cabal of ideologues and political advisors operating outside the view of top cabinet officials. The President is not a fully engaged administrator but an enigma who is, at best, guarded and poker-faced but at worst, uncurious, unintelligent, and a puppet of larger forces. O'Neill provided extensive documentation to journalist and author Suskind, including schedules with 7,630 entries and a set of 19,000 documents that featured memoranda to the President, thank-you notes, meeting minutes, and voluminous reports. The result, The Price of Loyalty, is a gripping look inside the meeting rooms, the in-boxes, and the minds of a famously guarded administration. Much of the book, as one might expect from the story of a Treasury Secretary, revolves around economics, but even those not normally enthused by tax code intricacies will be fascinated by the rapid-fire intellects of O'Neill and Fed chairman Alan Greenspan as they gather for regular power breakfasts. A good deal of the book is about the things that O'Neill never figures out. He knows there's something creepy going on with the administration's power structure, but he's never inside enough to know quite what it is. But while those sections are intriguing, other passages are simply revelatory: O'Neill asserts that Saddam Hussein was targeted for removal not in the 9/11 aftermath but soon after Bush took office. Paul O'Neill makes for an interesting protagonist. A vaunted economist from the days of Nixon and Ford, he returns to a Washington that's immeasurably more cutthroat. And while he appears almost naïvely academic initially, he emerges as someone determined to speak his mind even when it becomes apparent that such an approach spells his political doom. --John Moe
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The Times Blasts through the wall of silence surrounding the White House.
Financial Times The most spectacular attack on Bush by a former senior official.
Justin Webb, BBC The most sustained and damaging criticism of the Bush administration from a former insider since the President came to power.
New Yorker A damaging read...Our breezy President, if he is re-elected, may well find himself ruined by his refusal to heed O'Neill's warnings.
Sunday Times O'Neill's book is priceless.
Esquire The most explosive book of the year.
Guardian One of the most damning White House exposés of recent times.
Independent A considerable challenge to the official version of history.
Financial Times The most spectacular attack on Bush by a former senior official.
Justin Webb, BBC The most sustained and damaging criticism of the Bush administration from a former insider since the President came to power.
New Yorker A damaging read...Our breezy President, if he is re-elected, may well find himself ruined by his refusal to heed O'Neill's warnings.
Sunday Times O'Neill's book is priceless.
Esquire The most explosive book of the year.
Guardian One of the most damning White House exposés of recent times.
Independent A considerable challenge to the official version of history.
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PAUL O'NEILL LOOKED UP from his legal pad and out the window of USAir Flight 991 from Pittsburgh as it made a panoramic descent into Washington's Reagan National Airport. Read the first page
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PAUL O'NEILL LOOKED UP from his legal pad and out the window of USAir Flight 991 from Pittsburgh as it made a panoramic descent into Washington's Reagan National Airport. Read the first page
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This review is from: The Price Of Loyalty: George W. Bush, The White House, And The Education Of Paul O'Neill. (Hardcover)
People should read Bush at War of Bob Woodward and The Threatening Storm of Kenneth Pollack. It's puts all the juicy stories and quote's of Paul O'Neill in a much better perspective.Then form an opinion.
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How Can One Be Surprised??????????,
By TIMOTHY DOUGLAS SUTTON (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Price Of Loyalty: George W. Bush, The White House, And The Education Of Paul O'Neill. (Hardcover)
It was so obvious before the election that "what we have" is "what we were going to get" and that is why I did not vote for the subject matter.
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Da Juice!,
By OverTheMoon (overthemoonreview@hotmail.com) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill (Audio CD)
"Don't trust the guy who we hired to work with our Administration at the highest level" - WhitehouseYou know you just can't resist that!
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