Interview (#6) with Russ Baker, Author of "Family of Secrets"

For The Record #716

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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 »

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