Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina

Title: Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina Author: Frank Rich ISBN: 9781594200984 Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The Published: 2006 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher Description: When America was attacked on 9/11, its citizens almost unanimously rallied behind its new, untested president as he went to war. What they didn't know at the time was that the Bush administration's highest priority was not to vanquish Al Qaeda but to consolidate its own power at any cost. It was a mission that could be accomplished only by a propaganda presidency in which reality was steadily replaced by a scenario of the White House's own invention--and such was that scenario's devious brilliance that it fashioned a second war against an enemy that did not attack America on 9/11, intimidated the Democrats into incoherence and impotence, and turned a presidential election into an irrelevant referendum o