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- Episode
One:
- Fantasy: Alice Meets
Humpty Dumpty Rove.
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- Episode
Four:
- Fantasy: Alice Meets Tweedle
Dee and Tweedle Dum
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- Episode
Fourteen:
- Fantasy: Alice Sees
Humpty Dumpty Rove Again.
- Fact
Sheet: What Alice Didn't
Know about King Bush's Record on the
Environment.
- Fact
Sheet: What Alice Didn't
Know about the Health Effects of Pollution.
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- What
you and Alice can
do...
- Information about how to
change things
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- Other
Books by Peggy Wireman, Ph.D.
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Did you ever wonder what might
happen if, like Alice, you fell down a
hole and landed in a strange
place?
A Political Satire by
PEGGY WIREMAN,
Ph.D.
Revised, Second Edition 2006
- Foreword by Syndicated
Columnist
- John
Nichols
ALICE IN BUSHLAND
Fact and Fantasy in the Bush
Administration
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- Listen to
Forward
Forum's John Quinlan
interview Peggy Wireman about her book, Alice in
Bushland. Click
here to listen!
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- "Peggy is the Jon Stewart of
fairytales, the Stephen Colbert of the fantastic. Her
fantasies are far more telling than the evening
news. Wireman has found the map out of
Bushland." - John
Nichols
Alice suddenly found herself falling, falling... into a
deep hole. She swung onto a hanging chad... And found
herself in BUSHLAND!
There she met a number of strange creatures who explained
about life in BUSHLAND.
The first creature who appeared looked like a large round
egg. His name was Humpty Dumpty Rove.
Humpty Dumpty Rove: "I'm one of King Bush's spin
doctors. I make sure King Bush can use words anyway he wants
to. They mean anything he wants. He can even make them mean
things in retrospect."
To read more about Humpty Dumpty
Rove, click
here
"Alice in Bushland is an
imaginative and critical take on the Bush White
House. Peggy Wireman's playful humor
underscores disturbing facts about the
Bush Administration's handling of everything
from Enron to Iraq. Alarming and
entertaining at the same time." - Congresswoman Tammy
Baldwin (D-WI)
Alice also meets Compassionate King Bush, March Hare
Cheney, Mad Hatter Rumsfeld, the Cheshire Cat, Red Queen
Bush and other characters. The fantasies are followed by
fact sheets detailing what Alice Didn't Know about the Bush
Administration's positions on the environment, the deficit,
the Patriot Act and the war in Iraq. Useful for lightening
up after listening to the news and for talking to those
still undecided.
The Author grants limited license to
reproduce portions of the text from this website for the
purpose of disseminating information, provided the
following provisions are met: (1) No one may reproduce
this text for the purpose of financial gain without first
receiving permission from the copyright holder; (2) full
credit must be attributed to the author on each
reproduced portion (i.e. - © 2006 by Peggy
Wireman).
© 2006 by Peggy Wireman
Cartoons by Kevin
Wyeth
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Compassionate King
Bush weeps as the poor oysters fall through the safety
net.
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About
the Author, Peggy Wireman, Ph.D.
- Dr.Wireman has extensive experience working
as a legislative aide in Congress and in the
Executive branch in both Democratic and
Republican administrations. She also covered the
Maryland State Legislature as a reporter and has
been active in local political campaigns. She
has worked as a grassroots community organizer,
as a Congressional Fellow, and provided policy
analysis for the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development. She managed an $8 million
economic development grants program for the U.S.
Department of Commerce and the $5 million Small
Business Development Center.
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- Currently, Dr.Wireman is a freelance
consultant in community and economic
development. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology and
certification from the American Institute of
Certified Planners. She has lectured and
consulted in 10 countries.
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- Her previous books include Urban
Neighborhoods, Networks and Families: New Forms
for Old Values, Partnerships for
Prosperity: Museums and Economic
Development, and the 2004 edition of
Alice in Bushland: Fact and Fantasy in the
Bush Administration. Her fifth book,
Connecting the Dots: Building Strong
Families, Strong Communities and Terrific
Neighborhoods, will be published next
year.
Dr. Wireman can be
contacted at pwireman@aliceinbushland.com
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