Fortunate Son

Description for FORTUNATE SON: GEORGE W BUSH AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT by J H Hatfield: Why was this book burned? What is in it that warrants censure?J.H. Hatfield's FORTUNATE SON juxtaposes Bush's accomplishments as Governor of Texas with the specters of the Republican Presidential front-runner's past. Although charismatic, Bush has not been able to escape accusations of draft-dodging Vietnam and cocaine abuse. FORTUNATE SON provides the full research on these and other allegations, including anti-Semitism in the Bush Family and a possible connection to the BCCI Scandal. Despite a spectacular thrashing in public, Author J.H. Hatfield has retracted nothing. He stands by his three sources that allege Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972. Underneath heavy fire in the media, the former publisher panicked. But as Jenny Lyn Bader points out in The "New York Times", "If he's merely a convicted felon...that doesn't preclude him from being a successful writ