Bushworld : enter at your own risk / Maureen Dowd.

A collection of the author's columns originally published in The New York times.

The old king is deposed : in which the black sheep usurps the dutiful brother -- The regents enter : in which the old king encircles the dauphin with his trusted counselors -- War of the chads : in which the high court purloins the throne for the Bush dynasty -- Oedipus wrecks : in which the family drama Aeschylates -- Washington's transit : in which the politics of secution give way to the politics of confrontation -- The boy king's endless summer : in which the fault is in their star wars and in themselves -- Transfusing the blue blood with red to pump up the red states -- Surrendering to vice : the boy king submits to the dark father -- Sleeping with the enemy : in which the Saudis fly away from 9/11 blame in their private jets -- As the world turns on us : in which furious George upends his sire's friendly diplomacy -- A cynical chapter : feeding the fear and stoking the homeland insecurity -- On piety and pettifoggery -- In which Cheney, Rummy, Wolfie, Condi, Chalabi and the Neocon gang hijack the war on terror -- In which the reader roots for the gallant Colin Powell to prevail against the Pentagon Visigoths -- Hey dude, where's my covert action? : in which top gun is toppled by sputtering spooks -- Uncle Dick of the underworld : in which the dark father shows himself in the least amiable light -- Drunk on rummy : in which the boy emperor has no clothes or weapons -- In which the skull and bones scions, one who saucily sloughed off and one who pompously strived up, face off.

"In her first book, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd delivers a scorching illumination of the Bush administration's fractured adventures in empire-building."--BOOK JACKET.