Author's Coalition Carolyn Howard-Johnson, founder P.O. Box 1101 La Canada, Calif. 91012-1101 Contact: Apryl Greene -- media@creativefreedom.us Award-winning Journalist Launches New Book About Bush Administration

Political Book at West Hollywood Book Festival LOS ANGELES, Calif.--Walter M. Brasch will introduce his newly-released Sinking the Ship of State: The Presidency of George W. Bush at the West Hollywood Book Fair, 10 a.m., Sunday, Sept. 30. The Book Fair, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., will be at West Hollywood Park, 647 N. San Vicente Blvd. (near Santa Monica Blvd.) There is no cost to attend. More than 300 authors and 100 exhibitors are expected to attend this sixth annual event, according to Roz Helfand, Fair coordinator. The Fair includes panels, readings, and theatrical performances. With wit and wisdom, Brasch digs deep into the Bush-Cheney Administration and extracts the truth of the past seven years. In a well-documented 460-page book, Brasch looks at innumerable political and social issues, including violations of six constitutional amendments, well-established federal law, and international treaties. He also looks at media performance since 2000. The book is available at www.amazon.com, www.bn.com, or through the author's website, www.walterbrasch.com Nationally-syndicated columnist and best-selling author Jim Hightower notes, "When most Americans and the mainstream media were accepting whatever they were told by the Bush Administration, Walter Brasch was meticulously peeling away the incompetence, deceit, corruption and, most of all, their cavalier attitude to the Constitution." Brasch "does not spare the media in his well-informed and well-written account of the real-time history of this benighted era," says Alice Cherbonier, editor of the Baltimore Chronicle. Syndicated columnist Don Kaul says Brasch "lays the whip to an indolent press, 'cash register patriots,' and a corrupt Congress." He is, says Regina Huelman, editor of Liberal Opinion Week, "an articulate and entertaining writer who was one of the first and most consistent columnists to warn about the Bush Administration's plans for a pre-emptive attack on Iraq and the drummed up evidence of WMD, as well as the Administration's consistent attacks upon Constitutional rights." Jeffrey St. Clair, co-editor of the popular website, CounterPunch, says Brasch's writing "is propelled by a lively sense of humor and an acute sensitivity to the darker ironies of our times." Ron Kall, editor of OpEd News, calls the book "powerful, compelling and accurate," and Joe Shea, editor of The American Reporter, calls Brasch "a unique American with a very creative mind that grapples with the most basic of political problems." Brasch's "intense passions for liberty and enlightenment make him one of the best voices we have to combat the worst who rule over us," says syndicated columnist and best-selling author Chris Floyd who notes that Brasch is "probing, witty, insightful and learned." Brasch, professor of journalism at Bloomsburg University, is an award-winning syndicated columnist and the author of 16 other books, including America's Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Government's Violation of Constitutional and Civil Rights (Jan. 2005); 'Unacceptable': The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina (Jan. 2006); and Sex and the Single Beer Can: Probing the Media and American Culture (Sept. 2006) Learn more about Dr. Brasch at http://www.walterbrasch.com -30-

About the Author

professor of journalism, syndicated columnist, author of 17 books.