http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/publications/magazine/cooltools.cfm#featureIt Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush
As his many fans know, Joe Conason tells it like it is. Of the Republican party, the veteran journalist writes: “The name for what is wrong with them—the threat embedded within the Bush administration, the Republican congressional leadership and the current leaders of the Republican Party—is authoritarianism.” Conason describes in detail how Bush Republicans corrupted U.S. institutions with right-wing extremism, concentrated power in their own hands, suspended citizens’ constitutional rights, imposed secrecy on formerly open government agencies and promoted torture in violation of international law. Available from Powell's Union.