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The George W. Bush presidential era has certainly bequeathed us plenty of publications that negatively critique the performance of his administration. Sidney Blumenthal's The Strange Death of Republican America: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party is among them. This builds upon Blumenthal's first volume on the Bush presidency, How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime (Princeton University Press, 2006), and provides a natural companion to his seminal 1986 publication, The Rise of the Counter-establishment: The Conservative Ascent to Political Power (Times Books, 1986). Blumenthal's latest volume seeks to chart the decline of the Republican Party, which, according to him, "after nearly two generations of political dominance, rapidly disintegrates under the stress of Bush's failures and the Republicans' scandals and disgrace" (1-2).