In Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, Michael Isikoff and David Corn discuss the Bush Administration's foreign policy and the invasion of Iraq. The co-authors explain that they wrote the book to analyze how the President and his staff sold the war to Congress and the American public. This event was hosted by Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.
Michael Isikoff is an investigative correspondent for Newsweek and the author of "Uncovering Clinton." David Corn is the Washington editor of The Nation and a contributor to the Fox News Channel. He is also the author of "The Lies of George W. Bush," and the novel "Deep Background."
Bio
David Corn
David Corn is Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief. A regular on political talk shows, he has broken stories on George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Hillary Clinton, Enron, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, and other Washington players. His best-selling books include Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War (with Michael Isikoff) and The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception.
Michael Isikoff
Michael Isikoff joined NBC News in July 2010 as national investigative correspondent. He had been at Newsweek since 1994 as an investigative correspondent. He has written extensively on the U.S. government's war on terrorism, the Abu Ghraib scandal, campaign-finance and congressional ethics abuses, presidential politics and other national issues.
Barbara Meade
Barbara Meade is the co-owner of Politics and Prose Bookstore.