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Robert F. Kennedy |
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Nature · Political Science · Science · Social Science |
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Format: Hardcover, 244 Publisher: Harpercollins (July 01, 2004) Measurements: 8.75"(h) x 6.25"(w) x 1.25"(d), 0.9 lbs. ISBN: 9780060746872 |
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<p>In this powerful and far-reaching indictment of George W. Bush's White House, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the country's most prominent environmental attorney, charges that this administration has taken corporate cronyism to such unprecedented heights that it now threatens our health, our national security, and democracy as we know it. In a headlong pursuit of private profit and personal power, Kennedy writes, George Bush and his administration have eviscerated the laws that have protected our nation's air,water, public lands, and wildlife for the past thirty years, enriching the president's political contributors whilelowering the quality of life for the rest of us.</p><p>Kennedy lifts the veil on how the administration has orchestrated these rollbacks almost entirely outside of public scrutiny -- and in tandem with the very industries that our laws are meant to regulate, the country's most notorious polluters. He writes of how it has deceived the public by manipulating and suppressing scientific data, intim |
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