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Thirty Days: An Inside Account of Tony Blair at War - Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader - The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty - House of Bush: House of Saud - American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush - Book Review
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Not the faith of their fathers.
Peter Stothard, Thirty Days: An Inside Account of Tony Blair at War (New York: Harper Collins, 2003), 240 pp., $13.95.
Philip Stevens, Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader (New York: Viking, 2004), 265 pp., $24.95. Peter Schweizer and Rochelle Schweizer, The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty (New York: Doubleday, 2004), 524 pp., $27.95. Craig Unger, House of Bush: House of Saud (New York: Scribners, 2004), 356 pp., $26. Kevin Phillips, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush (New York: Viking, 2004), 397 pp., $25.95. ON THURSDAY, March 20, 2003, when the American stealth bombers launched the war a trifle ahead of schedule with the decapitation attempt on Saddam Hussein, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair told his staff that he wanted to end his televised address to the nation with the words "God bless you." The staff erupted in protest until Blair grumbled, through brushes and sponges as his make-up was applied, "You are the most ungodly lot I have ever...." His speechwriter, Peter Hyman, who is Jewish (and less than fully employed since Blair writes his important speeches himself), objected "Ungodly?--count me out." Somebody else on the staff suggested it was not quite the same God. "It is the same God", said Blair firmly. In the end, Blair closed his speech with a tame "Thank you." Shortly before the "God bless you" suggestion, which would have startled B...See the full content of this document
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