{"product_id":"bill-of-wrongs-the-executive-branchs-assault-on-americas-fundamental-rights-paperback","title":"Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMolly Ivins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLou Dubose\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, her final and perhaps greatest book, Molly Ivins launches a counterattack on the executive branch's shredding of our cherished Bill of Rights. From illegal wiretaps and the unlawful imprisonment of American citizens to the creeping influence of religious extremism on our national agenda and the erosion of the checks and balances that prevent a president from seizing unitary powers, Ivins and her longtime collaborator, Lou Dubose, describe the attacks on America's vital constitutional guarantees. With devastating humor and keen eyes for deceit and hypocrisy, they show how severe these incursions have become, and they ask us all to take an active role in protecting the Bill of Rights. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eBill of Wrongs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Should make anyone laugh, cheer and roar with rage.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-New Orleans Times-Picayune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" Molly Ivins is] wonderfully direct about the costs of our lost civil liberties. . . . Ivins' voice-in all its drawling, acerbic, storytelling, fearless glory-is stilled now. . . . But her message lives on. And every thoughtful American ought to be listening.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-The Buffalo News\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With her characteristic acerbic humor, Ivins and colleague Dubose dissect the myriad attacks the Bush administration has made on the Bill of Rights and how ordinary citizens have fought back.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ivins' own description of the book is spot-on: 'a hopeful and gladsome romp through some serious terrain.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-The New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A truly compelling read . . . filled with devastating humor and razor-sharp commentary.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e-Austinist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMolly Ivins, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, began her career in journalism as the complaint department of the \u003ci\u003eHouston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. She then went on to work for \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Observer\u003c\/i\u003e, as co-editor, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, as a political reporter and later as Rocky Mountain bureau chief. In 1982, she returned to Texas. Her column was syndicated in more than three hundred newspapers, and her freelance work appeared in \u003ci\u003eEsquire, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, Harper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eMolly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?\u003c\/i\u003e, spent more than a year on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Time\u003c\/i\u003es bestseller list. Her books with Lou Dubose on George W. Bush, \u003ci\u003eShrub\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBushwhacked\u003c\/i\u003e, were also\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers. Molly Ivins died in January 2007. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLou Dubose has written about Texas and national politics for thirty years. He was editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Observer\u003c\/i\u003e and politics editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Austin Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, and he currently edits \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e. He was co-author (with Molly Ivins) of \u003ci\u003eShrub\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBushwhacked\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2003 he wrote (with\u003ci\u003e Texas Monthly \u003c\/i\u003ewriter Jan Reid) \u003ci\u003eThe Hammer: Tom DeLay, God, Money, and the Rise of the Republican Congress.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2006 he wrote (with \u003ci\u003eTexas Observer\u003c\/i\u003e editor Jake Bernstein) \u003ci\u003eVice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.02 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 14, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758781399328,"sku":"9780812973082","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b4263e56a5fc1999db94971711f8bc44.webp?v=1780135279","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/bill-of-wrongs-the-executive-branchs-assault-on-americas-fundamental-rights-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}