Bushopedia

About the Book

Bushopedia is arranged alphabetically, with over 240 entries ranging from a single paragraph to multiple pages. The entries include people (politicians, fellow travelers, pundits, and prominent members of the religious right), deliberative bodies, issues, policies, legislation, right-wing organizations, terminology (e.g., enemy combatant, gerrymandering, terrorism, trifecta, voodoo economics, xenophobia, etc.), the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The author has checked his information using verifiable sources in the press and on the Internet, and has provided copious footnotes (over 760 of them) and cross-references.

Those who have already seen a preview of the book have expressed their very favorable opinions quite forcefully:

• "Bill Potts' Bushopedia will make you laugh, cry, scream, throw up, get mad, and try to do something about the worst administration in U.S. history. It's my kind of book."
  -Jim Hightower, author of Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush and Thieves in High Places

• "Bushopedia says it all when it comes to the follies of the Bush administration and its conservative cohorts leading to the present American tragedy."
  - Helen Thomas, First Lady of the White House Press Corps and author of Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times

• "What a hysterical and brilliant concept. I'm putting it on my coffee table. You can just open to any page and suddenly you can't stop reading."
  - Barbara Trent, Academy Award winning film maker (The Panama Deception) and seasoned activist

• "An up-to-date, meticulously and thoroughly researched who's who, what's what, how and why of the Bush administration, at once as amusing as a W bushapropism and as serious as a cancer diagnosis. Must reading for the majority of Americans who believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction."
  - Edd Doerr, author and President, Americans for Religious Liberty

• "An Extraordinary book."
  - Theodore A. Webb, author of Seven Sons: Millionaires and Vagabonds

About the Author

Bill Potts was raised in England, from whence he emigrated, in 1957, to Canada, where he spent the next twenty years. He has lived in California for the past 27 years. He has been interested and active, as a volunteer and contributor, in civil liberties, civil rights and church/state separation issues for most of his adult life, and now considers himself to be something of a political junkie. He served for four years (1968-1972) on the board of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. He is a card-carrying member of the ACLU, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is currently the President of the Humanist Association of the Greater Sacramento Area. He is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society (since 1969) and has published two computer-related booksÑThe McGraw-Hill Data Communication Dictionary and The Simple Modem Book (both now too dated to be useful). He has also produced and delivered a number of seminars and courses.