Lectures tagged "George W. Bush"

David M. Walker: Restoring Fiscal Responsibility in the US
David M. Walker
January 27, 2010
00:57:22
Financial expert David M. Walker examines the United States' national fiscal outlook and discusses his new book, Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility.
Charlotte Dennett: The People v. Bush
Charlotte Dennett
January 20, 2010
00:54:44
Journalist-turned-lawyer Charlotte Dennett discusses her new book, The People v. Bush: One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encountered Along the Way.
Teapot in a Tempest: The Boston Tea Party of 1773 (Part 2)
Benjamin Carp
December 10, 2009
00:52:37
The Boston Tea Party lives on in history and memory in a variety of ways. The term "Boston Tea Party" doesn't appear for 50 years after the event. No one spoke openly about who had boarded the tea ships until the 1820s and 1830s.
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John W. Dean: Broken Government
John W. Dean
September 13, 2007
01:30:48
John W. Dean addresses what he sees as dysfunction, chaos, and institutional damage wrought by the Republican Party and its core conservatives on the federal government. Are the nation's current political ills primarily the fault of the Republicans? Have the Democrats been any better?
Elizabeth de la Vega: Making a Case For Impeachment
Elizabeth de la Vega
May 9, 2007
01:08:53
Elizabeth de la Vega, former federal prosecutor and author of U.S. v Bush et al: Fraud Worse than Enron, conducts a hypothetical grand jury indictment of administration officials who conspired to defraud the United States by misleading the nation into war.
Elections: Fooled Again
Mark Crispin Miller
February 7, 2007
01:20:17
Mark Crispin Miller discusses stealing elections. Why are the elections of 2002 and 2004 a harbinger of the future? What happened in 2006 and what can we learn from that experience?
Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk
Maureen Dowd
October 26, 2004
01:17:25
Maureen Dowd draws upon her celebrated columns to probe the group she has made recognizable by their first names, middle initials, nicknames, or numbers as they seek an extreme makeover of the country and the world.
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Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation-Building
Toby Dodge
November 19, 2003
01:21:15
ABC News Iraq expert Toby Dodge discusses his new book, Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation-Building and a History Denied, on the formation of modern Iraq, and the troubling parallels between the policies of a declining British empire and those of the current American government.