In this powerful indictment of George W. Bush's White House, environmental attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,
charges that the administration has taken corporate favoritism to unprecedented heights -- threatening our health,
our national security, and our democracy.
Kennedy lifts the veil on how the administration, in order to enrich its corporate paymasters, has eviscerated
the laws that protect our nation's air, water, public lands, and wildlife. He describes the White House doling
out lavish subsidies and tax breaks to energy barons while allowing the corporations to profit by poisoning the
public and eliminating security at the more than 15,000 nuclear and chemical facilities that are prime targets
for terrorist attacks. He shows how right-wing White House ideologues have taken the "conserve" out of
conservatism and trampled the free-market democracy in favor of a kind of corporate-crony capitalism that is as
antithetical to democracy, efficiency, and prosperity in America as it is in Nigeria.
Crimes Against Nature is a book for both Democrats and Republicans, people like the traditionally conservative
farmers and fishermen whom Kennedy represents in lawsuits against polluters. "Without exception," he
writes, "these people see the current administration as the greatest threat not just to their livelihoods
but to their values, their sense of community, and their idea of what it means to be American."