More than any president in recent memory, George W. Bush invokes the language of good versus evil and right versus wrong. Here, world-renowned Princeton University professor of ethics Peter Singer shines a spotlight on Bush, analyzing whether he has lived up to the values he so often touts in his presidential prose. Called timely and searching by the Washington Post, this accessible look at the president reveals his pattern of ethical confusion and self-contradiction, and his moral failure on dozens of hot-button issues. Labeled a generous critic by the New York Times, Singer advances devastating arguments that make this the book to give to anyone thinking of voting for George W. Bush in November 2004.
More than any president in recent memory, George W. Bush invokes the language of good versus evil and right versus wrong. Here, world-renowned Princeton University professor of ethics Peter Singer shines a spotlight on Bush, analyzing whether he has lived up to the values he so often touts in his presidential prose. Called timely and searching by the Washington Post, this accessible look at the president reveals his pattern of ethical confusion and self-contradiction, and his moral failure on dozens of hot-button issues. Labeled a generous critic by the New York Times, Singer advances devastating arguments that make this the book to give to anyone thinking of voting for George W. Bush in November 2004.
Preface to the Plume Edition
1. Introduction
PART 1: BUSH’S AMERICA
2. A Single Nation of Justice and Opportunity
3. The Culture of Life
4. The Freest Nation in the World
5. The Power of Faith
PART 2: AMERICA AND THE WORLD
6. Sharing the World
7. War Afghanistan
8. War Iraq
9. Pax Americana
10. The Ethics of George W. Bush
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index