GENERALISSIMO EL BUSHO: Essays and Cartoons on the Bush Years
Ted Rall, . . NBM, $19.95 (208pp) ISBN 978-1-56163-385-2
Even when the country was rallying around President Bush, syndicated cartoonist and columnist Rall remained in a state of outrage—one he effectively maintains throughout this book, a set of essay-like meditations on a Pinochetesque figure he calls "Generalissimo El Busho." Each of 60 or so short salvos is typically accompanied by one to three cartoons (at most four to six panels). Bush's election ("The Seizure of Power") is followed by a post-9/11 cartoon on the president's attitudes toward civil liberties violations titled "Martin Niemoller Now"—referring to the priest who said, in part, "When they came for Jews, I did not speak up, because I wasn't a Jew." A prescient cartoon imagines the prison at Guantánamo as the reality show
Reviewed on: 06/28/2004
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 160 pages - 978-1-56163-384-5