Family of Secrets
by Russ Baker

Russ Baker is an investigative reporter well known for fact-based reporting. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Nation, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, Esquire and as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. He also is the founder of the nonprofit investigative news organization at WhoWhatWhy.com.

By now, I’m sure you have heard all the glowing, historical “accomplishments” by the Bush Administration listed by the President at his last news conference and given elsewhere in the media by the President and his loyal supporters.

Family of Secrets deserves equal time by those interested in the real facts, and, believe me, there are a mega number of hard facts that are presented with named sources, dates, witnesses and extensive interviews. This is a must-read for those interested in preserving our democracy, and its history.

There is a web of intrigue presented in this book whose strands of facts link the events in our lives that we never learn about as-is. Within the book’s pages are the elements left out in Bush’s rewriting of history, the true stuff that was between the lines of copy in newspapers and from blogs you weren’t ever suppose to learn and the raw facts before the spin-doctors passed them on to us.

What a book! Revelation after revelation. Like, who runs this country, what Watergate was really about (plan to oust Nixon), and about the people behind JFK’s assassination and most recently, about the Iraq war. Surprise, surprise! but one cannot dispute the hard (but buried) facts uncovered by Russ Baker.

This is not a conspiracy book. It’s history written as-is. At the book’s end, the notes of 60 or more references for each chapter (24 chapters) are there for the reader to follow up. Along with an extensive index.

Russ Baker’s writing style kept me reading, cover to cover. A real page-turner. At times, I would think that his revelations were things that I was better off not knowing. But if you really want the true facts of as-is events instead of smoke and mirrors, buy Russ Baker’s book. For other (better-than-mine) reviews of this book, including the research behind it, click on

Family of Secrets’ Site

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