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Journalist Russ Baker has authored Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government and the Hidden History of the Last 50 Years–a potentially decisive, multi-generational political history and analysis of the Bush family. This sixth and concluding interview in the series highlights the political ascendancy and reign of Dubya.
Essential to Bush’s political career was his stint as an oner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, a position that gave him name recognition and popularity. In FTR #715, we examined Harken Energy, one of Bush’s many mysterious business ventures and a company that appears to have been largely a money-laundering front. Bush’s Harken stock was parlayed into his part-ownership of the Rangers. Read more »