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Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans - Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild (fully updated 2nd edition)
by Greg Palast

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Publication Date: 2007
Publisher: Dutton / Penguin
Binding: Paperback
Topics: s, Corporate Rule, Democracy: Theory & Practice, Humor, Labor & Work / Classism, Media, Militarism, United States

Description: The words which follow are straight from the pen of the author, in a recent email, describing his new 2nd edition:

The new edition, in paperback, totally updated with two new chapters, is out today.

Why get it this week? Because Karl Rove hopes you don't.

I can't make this up: In a February 7 email subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee, the Rove gang boasts that in the USA, "no national press has picked up" the investigations in 'Armed Madhouse'. There's even an excerpt from 'Armed Madhouse' attached to Rove's rant.

If you get the book that drives the madmen crazy (or crazier) this week, we can put it back up on the national bestseller lists where "national press," and then they can't ignore us.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls 'Armed Madhouse', "A masterpiece; reads like a spy thriller... yet seriously funny." But don't take Bobby's word for it: Read it yourself - and check out copies of those emails that are supposedly "missing" - reproduced in all their horrific and bonkers glory in the book.

Why did Rove and his hand-glove President fire eight honest prosecutors? It's in the book - and Karl knows it.

The new chapters include 'Busted' - how I got charged by Homeland Security for violating anti-terror laws while digging the dirt on the White House gang in New Orleans. I'll show you the info that's an alleged threat to national security. Then there's the new Chapter, "The Theft of 2008¾ - plus the bonus addendum on How to Steal Back Your Vote.

Plus the updates on your fave stories about Iraq's oil, The War on Terror (in "Whose Afraid of Osama Wolf?") and more.

Randi Rhodes says, "Greg Palast is America's top investigative reporter... and the funniest." What's so funny? Well, let me guide you through the asylum.

The paperback is so new, I had to give it a new title: 'ARMED MADHOUSE - Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone WILD.'

Now, here's the description we gave the first edition of this book:

Greg Palast's undercover reports in Harper's Magazine and web site venues have won him a reputation for spunk and resourcefulness. In 'Armed Madhouse,' he pulls out all the stops to unleash a muckraker's attack on the Bush administration and its potential aftermath.

The "top journalist in America and the funniest" (Randi Rhodes, Air America), takes his previous New York Times bestseller a step further with hot undercover dispatches - hanging out the dirty underpants of the "armed and dangerous clowns that rule us."

A White House spokesman said, "We hate that sonovabitch." They're not alone: From corporate suites to Osama's cave, they fear what Britain's Guardian calls "investigations up there with Woodward and Bernstein - and a lot funnier." But Greg Palast's fanatic following (nearly two million readers of his Web column) has made him "a cult fave among progressives" (Village Voice) who can't wait for his next release.

Palast's old-style gum-shoe detective work to dig out the info on the War on Terror, greed-dripping schemes to seize little nations with lots of oil, the hidden program to steal the 2008 election, and the media biases that keep it unreported are the meat and bones of this BBC television reporter's new book. 'Armed Madhouse' is illustrated with dozens of documents marked "secret" and "confidential" that have walked out of file cabinets and fallen into Palast's hands.

You won't find Palast in The New York Times (except its bestseller list), but you will read his reports on the hottest Web sites worldwide, hear him regularly on Air America, Democracy Now, and the Pacifica radio networks, and see his stories reappearing as the basis for Eminem's hit video Mosh, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, and sampled by a dozen of today's top platinum rock artists.

Greg Palast is the author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy", a New York Times bestseller - it spent 6 months on the list - and produced and starred in the hit BBC documentary Bush Family Fortunes. His undercover reports appear regularly in Harper's magazine, on BBC's Newsnight, and on Pacifica's Democracy Now! Palast has won numerous awards for his investigative journalism, including six Project Censored awards and the Guerrilla News Network Reporter of the Year.

Review(s): "Upsets all the right people." - Noam Chomsky

"A Truth Hound .... Palast's stories bite. They're so relevant they threaten to alter history." - Chicago Tribune

"Palast, a tough-talking, fedora-wearing corporate fraud investigator turned intrepid journalist, has a habit for finding actual documents and then using them in edgy exposés." - Los Angeles Times

"Courageous reporting." - Michael Moore

"Gripping, provocative, inspiring." - John Perkins, the New York Times bestselling author of 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man'

"The type of investigative reporter you don't see anymore - a cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes." - Jim Hightower

"I urge you: read Palast's latest book .... The story is like a spy thriller." - Robert Kennedy Jr.




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