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Cowboy Republic:
Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law

By Marjorie Cohn
With Foreword by Richard Falk

Published by PoliPointPress
189 Pages
Publication Date 7/07
ISBN: 978-0-9778253-3-2
$14.95, soft cover

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“Marjorie Cohn’s Cowboy Republic is a passionate and compelling indictment of the Bush administration’s often blatant disregard of both constitutional and international law. It’s also an important cautionary tale about the perils that can befall a democracy when the arrogance of power outstrips the reasoned constraints of the law.”
—Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago Law School

“Marjorie Cohn has always been good at explaining how powerful ‘elected officials’ violate our democratic rights. Cowboy Republic is her best effort yet. From an illegal aggressive war in Iraq to torture, here it all is—the six major ways the Bush administration has made America an outlaw state.”
—Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights

“This devastating, utterly compelling account of the crimes and usurpations of the Bush administration will convince all but the perpetrators themselves of the urgent need not only for investigations and prompt impeachments, but also for criminal prosecutions.”
—Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

William Fisher | Marjorie Cohn’s Justice Gene
By William Fisher
t r u t h o u t | Book Review

Tuesday 11 September 2007

The past six years have seen an avalanche of books excoriating President George W. Bush, the key figures in his administration, and the ideologies, policies and practices they have embraced.

Some have been eye-opening blockbusters, like Bob Woodward’s “State of Denial.” Others have found themselves in the remaindered section of your bookstore. Some, like Woodward’s, have been long and dense, tough reads filled with incriminating quotes from The Decider himself. Others have been often-inaccessible offerings by serious journalists in military history, like Tom Ricks of The Washington Post (”Fiasco”) and Michael Gordon of The New York Times (”Cobra II”). A few have genuinely illuminated little-known and underreported aspects of the Bush administration; “Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran springs to mind. So too does David Cole’s “Enemy Aliens.” Too many others have forsaken solid evidence and confirmed sources to deliver oversimplistic rants, more akin to pamphleteering on rhetorical steroids…Read More

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