What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception

What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception | Scott McClellan | Fantastic Book

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	What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception Scott McClellan PublicAffairs, 2008 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 201 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Intensely Reasonable

"What Happened" is full of great insider information put forth by an intensely reasonable story teller who seems to have no other agenda than the truth. I am no fan of the Bush administration. But I've had my fill of books that conclude that George Bush is either evil or stupid or both. It was refreshing to read an account that put blame on a bad mix of character flaws and events. Mr. McClellan has the perspective of an historian. I enjoyed being drawn into this inner circle and given a broader perspective on the most important events of our time.

Fantastic Book

As someone who is left-leaning I tried to read this book without any preconceived notions. Mr. McLellan's book is an extremely well written history of what happened during his time working for George W. Bush. When there are facts to be presented, he presents them as neutral as possible. When he gives his own opinion, he clearly states that it is his opinion, and shouldn't be taken as fact.

The first half of the book was basically praising Bush and explains why Scott joined him in the first place. The second half explains, in detail, what went wrong.

This book actually gave me a little bit more respect for Bush, as the mistakes he made could have been made by many people, myself included. However, we expect more out of the President of the United States, and he should not be excused for what he did.

Whether you're a hard-core conservative, a hard-core liberal, or some where in between, I highly recommend this book.

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WHAT HAPPENED

BOUGHT THIS BOOK FOR MY HUSBAND. HE WANTED TO READ ABOUT THE INSIDE DIRT IN DC. THIS BOOK SHOULD DO IT!

Scott Bashes DC, Not Bush.

I just finished Scott's book today and am shocked that Rove and others I have seen on the news have said that he turned on them. Instead of the expected bash on Bush, Scott was fair, polite, even respectful of Bush and the entire White House staff. What Scott did bash was the culture of deception, politics-as-war, permanent campaign, and care-more-about-party-than-America culture in Washington, D.C. This is a story of a guy who loves America and loves the political process, who went to Washington with a President who sincerely wanted to end the corruption there, but ended up getting caught up in it and perpetuating this secretive and partisan culture that sickens so many of us younger Americans. This book is very interesting, rational and fair. It is a call to all Americans to demand more of their leadership whatever the party, and more of their media whatever the network.

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