We've got a busy June ahead of us at the FDL Book Salon.  It's shaping up as a month devoted to the many different ways that the current administration has taken the country into a lawless and dangerous place and left it there without a clear way home.

The United States v. I. Lewis Libby On Sunday, June 10, we'll be hosting investigative reporter Murray Waas, the author and editor of The United States v. I. Lewis Libby.  This book, due to be released tomorrow, combines transcripts from the Libby trial and Waas's own reporting.  It shows how the outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA operative was one part of a larger plan to preserve the fiction that "intelligence failures," rather than deliberate manipulations of the truth, were behind the administration's bogus claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency Then on Sunday, June 24, Glenn Greenwald returns to discuss his forthcoming book, A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency.  Greenwald's book may be the first ever about how a President was undone by a logical fallacy familiar to anyone who has ever taken a freshman year philosophy class.  That fallacy--known as the either/or fallacy or the fallacy of the excluded middle--was transformed into official American policy by the Bush administration.  As Thomas Pynchon has written, excluded middles are bad shit; as Glenn Greenwald has written, they leave those who are guided by them unprepared for complexity, ambiguity and nuance.

Both salons go live at 5:00 pm EDT.  Pull up a chair, fire up your internet connection, and join us for discussions with these two writers who have given us the first drafts of the history of the Bush administration.