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With wit and anger, What Happened Here takes us through the administration of the “Bush junta”: the inauguration of George W. Bush; September 11th, 2001; the invention of the War on Terror; the real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; and the often bizarre behaviour of the Republican party. Ranging from first-person, journalism to political analysis, Eliot Weinberger traces the nightmarish absurdities of the Bush administration with incisive elegance. What Happened Here was nominated for a 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.
Eliot Weinberger is a poet, essayist and translator. His editon of Jorge Luis Borges’s Selected Non-Fictions (1999) received the National Book Critics Circle prize for criticism, and he is the primary translator of Octavio Paz into English. His most recent works include Karmic Traces: 1993-1999, and a translation of Bei Dao’s Unlock (with Iona Man-Cheong). He lives in New York City.
Sept. 2006
224 pages
Paper
ISBN-10: 1 84467 416 2
£9.99 (UK only)
