{"product_id":"what-happened-here-eliot-weinberger-9780811216388","title":"What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles: Current Affairs","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssayist Eliot Weinberger sets his sights on the Bush team with brilliant, thought-provoking, funny consequences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Written for publication in magazines abroad, translated into sixteen languages, and collected here for the first time, Eliot Weinberger's chronicles of the Bush era range from first-person journalism to political analysis to a kind of documentary prose poetry. The book begins with the inauguration of George W. Bush in January 200land an eerie prediction of the invasion of Iraqand picks up on September 12, with an account of downtown Manhattan, where Weinberger lives, on the \"day after.\" With wit and anger, and sometimes startling prescience, \u003ci\u003eWhat Happened Here\u003c\/i\u003e takes us through the first term of the \"Bush junta\" the deep history of the neoconservative \"sleeper cell,\" the invention of the War on Terror, the real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the often bizarre behavior of the Republican Party. For twenty-five years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay form into unexplored territory. In \u003ci\u003eWhat Happened Here\u003c\/i\u003e, truth proves stranger than poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eliot Weinberger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811216381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811216388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.08h x 5.08w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2005 pg. 1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/20\/2005 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2005 pg. 727","brand":"Eliot Weinberger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46526672306431,"sku":"9780811216388","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e055cfd-064f-4bce-b91e-4f37f36bf624.jpg?v=1737556835","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-happened-here-eliot-weinberger-9780811216388","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}