Hollywood Hussein: How the U.S. Really Captured Saddam
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HOLLYWOOD HUSSEIN: HOW THE U.S. >REALLY< CAPTURED SADDAM
George W. Bush has been keeping a real big secret from America. Texas big! And we're not talking about his secret crush on Paris Hilton. No, what Bush really doesn't want you to know is how Hollywood helped him capture Saddam Hussein.
Shhh. Bush doesn't want you to know he recruited tabloid journalist Tom Peppers and a rag-tag team of paparazzi to do the job the CIA could not. He doesn't want you to know he hired sexy celubutante London Marriott to distract America. Bush especially doesn't want the public to know he turned to Arnold Schwarzenegger and a reality-TV guru to create the first presidentially produced reality show, Who Wants To Be An American Hero.
Well, too bad, W! Hollywood Hussein uncovers it all.
In Hollywood Hussein, author Ken Baker presents phone transcripts, classified documents and his very own interiews with the key players in Bush's top-secret "Operation Hollywood." Indeed, Hollywood Hussein reveals the previously untold story behind Saddam's curiously Hollywood-like capture in December 2003 from a spider hole in Iraq.
The White House in Hollywood Hussein is one where the president uses weekly magazine sales figures - rather than scientific polls - to guage popular opinion, where the president spends more time plotting propaganda with Karl Rove than planning policy with Colin Powell, and where unlikely heroes emerge to save America from itself.
Hollywood Hussein's hilariously scathing depiction of the events surrounding Saddam's capture not only will have you laughing, but the book's shocking final twist will also make you question everything you see on the news, not to mention the next thing you hear out of a politician's mouth.
About the Author
Author Bio (FOR FLAP COPY) Ken Baker is the West Coast Executive Editor of Us Weekly and the author of two critically-acclaimed memoirs, Man Made: A Memoir of My Body (which was an Oprah book selection) and They Don't Play Hockey in Heaven: A Dream, a Team and My Comeback Season, which chronicled his experience as a professional hockey goalie. Baker, who holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, has worked in the Washington, D.C., bureau of ABC News and as a staff correspondent for People magazine. He lives in - where else? - Hollywood.
Hollywood Hussein: How the U.S. Really Captured Saddam,Ken Baker,Verona Pub,0966703790,Fiction,Government - General,Humorous
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