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Christopher Scheer, Robert Scheer, and Lakshmi Chaudhry have documented the depth of deception of all the president's henchmen who misled America into war against Iraq. This book will become the required text for the coming wave of campus teach-ins and mass protests over U.S. policy in Iraq. The authors have written the truth, and the truth sets us free to reclaim our nation. –U.S. Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich |
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More events on the way
Combined, and with the gracious help of Seven Stories Press, Akashic Books and AlterNet.org, the authors have made well over a hundred bookstore and radio appearances to talk about the book, Iraq and the Bush administration since the New Year in over 20 cities across the country, including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and Washington.
Coming soon: Sacramento, Woodland, Dublin, Oakland and Grass Valley, all in northern California (dates/times tba).
If you want one of the authors to speak at your bookstore, house party or on a TV or radio show you host or produce, please contact Christopher Scheer at [email protected]. Thank you very much to everyone who has come out to listen and take part in the discussion.
Posted by Christopher on May 18, 2004 @ 6:20PM
From the Chicago Reader's review
from Critic's Choice, by Renaldo Migaldi, March 26, 2004:
"... The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq provides a concise primer on the subject with this dense but readable exposition of how the White House responded to 9/11 not by sanely mobilizing global cooperation against a genuine terrorist threat, nor by addressing the root causes of the problem, but by cynically playing on Americans' fears and patriotism to scare up support for an outrageously irrelevant military adventure in Iraq. Scheer and his colleagues chronicle the charade in painful detail: the Bush administration's selective use of intelligence to fit preconceived conclusions; its pattern of lying, obfuscating, and retracting while maintaining deniability; and its arrogant cluelessness about the outside world. Even for those who consider themselves well read on the subject, Scheer's book offers a lucid and disturbing overview of how this country was so easily bamboozled."
Posted by Christopher on May 18, 2004 @ 6:07PM
Replay of last weekend's hot debate
Robert Scheer took part in a four-person debate at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival on April 25 in front of packed crowd at UCLA's Royce Hall. Christopher Hitchens, Michael Ignatieff and Mark Danner also weighed in during the often heated debate. C-Span2's BookTV will be replaying the debate sometime this weekend (time/day TBA) and DVD or VHS videotape copies of the 2+ hour event can be purchased from C-Span's store and includes a post-debate discussion with C-Span viewers and author James Mann. You can also buy an audiotape version from the Festival's store.
Posted by Christopher on May 4, 2004 @ 11:59AM
Interviews with the authors
Bob and Christopher in a lively forum-cum-debate with New York politician and New York State Kerry for President co-chair Mark Green as edited and rebroadcast on Democracy Now! and moderated by Amy Goodman. Things got pretty heated over how Kerry and other Democrats should approach the Iraq issue, then and now.
Christopher on Wisconsin Public Radio (audio file) after David Kay's resignation. While WPR has had us on twice, NPR has maintained their blockout even after we hired a hotshot publicist and spent a week on their coast.
Older stuff: The Buzzflash interview with Robert and Christopher. The publishers' interview with Lakshmi and Christopher.
Posted by Christopher on February 17, 2004 @ 4:38PM
More reviews
"In 'The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq,' Robert and Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry show the astonishing extent of frenetic distortion in the marketing of the war," writes Los Angeles Times reviewer Stanley Meisler, in one of those 3-for-1 package reviews.
"Though 'The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq' isn't light reading, it's a necessary handbook for deciphering the muddle and spin of the Bush administration's war on terror and understanding what we've lost in the process," writes Erin Ergenbright in the Portland Mercury. "While hysterical ranting would seem appropriate, this concise, expertly researched book is not simply reactionary."
"Although the book is only 174 pages long, the authors prove their points and then some," writes Real Change News reviewer R.V. Murphy.
Posted by Christopher on February 17, 2004 @ 3:13PM
