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Newsbreaking and controversial -- an award-winning
investigative journalist uncovers the thirty-year relationship
between the Bush family and the House of Saud and explains
its impact on American foreign policy, business, and national
security.
House of Bush, House of Saud begins with a politically explosive
question: How is it that two days after 9/11, when U.S. air
traffic was tightly restricted, 140 Saudis, many immediate
kin to Osama Bin Laden, were permitted to leave the country
without being questioned by U.S. intelligence?
The answer lies in a hidden relationship that began in the
1970s, when the oil-rich House of Saud began courting American
politicians in a bid for military protection, influence,
and investment opportunity. With the Bush family, the Saudis
hit a gusher -- direct access to presidents Reagan, George
H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. To trace the amazing weave
of Saud- Bush connections, Unger interviewed three former
directors of the CIA, top Saudi and Israeli intelligence
officials, and more than one hundred other sources. His access
to major players is unparalleled and often exclusive -- including
executives at the Carlyle Group, the giant investment firm
where the House of Bush and the House of Saud each has a
major stake.
Like Bob Woodward's The Veil, Unger's House
of Bush, House of Saud features unprecedented reportage; like Michael Moore's
Dude, Where's My Country? Unger's book offers a political
counter-narrative to official explanations; this deeply sourced
account has already been cited by Senators Hillary Rodham
Clinton and Charles Schumer, and sets 9/11, the two Gulf
Wars, and the ongoing Middle East crisis in a new context:
What really happened when America's most powerful political
family became seduced by its Saudi counterparts?
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