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The People v. Bush

One lawyer’s campaign to bring the President
to justice and the national grassroots
movement she encounters along the way
Charlotte Dennett
$19.95 US • $23.50 CAN • Paperback
ISBN 9781603582094 • 6 x 9 • 285 pages
Pub Date: February 2010
http://cli.gs/peoplevbush

When journalist-turned-lawyer Charlotte Dennett became outraged that Bush White House officials were acting above the
law, she did something that surprised even herself: She ran for a state attorney general seat on a platform to prosecute George
W. Bush for murder. She lost the race, but found a movement—one that continues its quest to hold leaders accountable to
U.S. law and preserve a Constitutional presidency.
Dennett’s wild ride through politics began when she read in The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, by Vincent
Bugliosi, that a state attorney general could prosecute George W. Bush—should one take up the cause. Soon after, Dennett
launched her attorney-general race in Vermont, signed up Bugliosi as her special prosecutor in the event that she won, and
together the two made headlines across the nation.
In The People v. Bush, Dennett recounts her seminal effort to prosecute the former president, introduces readers to a world
where the actions of a few can indeed empower the many, and reports on the current state of the tenacious movement to
hold Bush accountable for high crimes and misdemeanors.
With these stories and her own, Dennett shows that it’s not just possible but necessary to hold higher-ups responsible for
heinous acts in order to preserve justice and defend the Constitution.

“ Charlotte Dennett is trying to awaken the conscience of the nation. She wants
us to recognize not just that our government officials at the highest level— the
president and the people around him—have committed war crimes, but that they
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should be prosecuted as we prosecute ordinary criminals. She has been carrying
this campaign forward with extraordinary persistence and courage, demonstrating
that grassroots action can be powerful. Her book is a clarion call for the people to
confront the crimes of government, for democracy to come alive.
— Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States

Author and attorney Charlotte Dennett has been practicing law since 1997, with an emphasis
on personal injury litigation and suing the government under the Freedom of Information Act. She’s
also been a reporter in the Middle East and is the coauthor with her husband, Gerard Colby, of Thy Will
© Katherine Vose

Be Done-The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. She and her
husband live in Cambridge, Vermont.
 Advance Praise for

by Charlotte Dennett

“Charlotte Dennett—one of the gutsiest women in America—has written an energized, no-holds-barred

account of her efforts to hold our leaders criminally accountable for shredding the Constitution. This is a
woman who is not scared to call illegality by its true name and who believes in the rule of law the way the
Founders intended. The ‘accountability’ movement deserves broad attention and deep support from across the
political spectrum and this book is an unmissable part of its story.”
—Naomi Wolf, bestselling author of The End of America and Give Me Liberty

“Charlotte Dennett was a great writer before she was a great activist. Her campaign for attorney general
of Vermont highlighted the importance of Americans stepping up at the local and state level to challenge
executive lawlessness that went unaddressed by federal authorities. Her recounting of that campaign, and of
this accountability activism, offers a timely reminder that the threat posed by an imperial presidency remains
unaddressed. Even Americans who recognize that Barack Obama is a better executive than George Bush
should recognize that Charlotte is right: The laws of the land must apply to all Americans, even presidents.”
— John Nichols, author of The Genius of Impeachment

“Many in this country thought the worst thing a president could do was have an extramarital affair and lie
about it. But Charlotte Dennett begged to differ. In The People v. Bush she tells the story of her idealistic
campaign, beginning in ‘the brave little state of Vermont,’ to hold President George W. Bush accountable for
the lives of American soldiers and Iraqis who died in a war launched under false pretenses. In a time where
too few take even a small risk for larger principles, we can all learn something from this conscientious and
resolute woman.”
— Russ Baker, investigative journalist and author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible
Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years

“What our political culture is missing most is exactly what Charlotte Dennett has provided here: a credible,
inspiring blueprint for restoring accountability to our political system. Even for those who believe that
something has gone terribly awry, this book makes the definitive case of urgency as to why we must no
longer permit lawbreaking and deep corruption from our leaders.”
— Glenn Greenwald, Salon columnist and former Constitutional lawyer

“Dennett’s book describes, from the inside, the birth of a movement to hold top US officials to the rule of law.
The eventual success of that movement will be furthered by the success of this remarkable book. Dennett has
done us a great service, first by her work and now by her chronicling of it.”
—David Swanson, cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.org and author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial
Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union