Hatfield,J.H. Fortunate Son. 2000
Hatfield, J.H. Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American
President. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2000. 375 pages.
When this book was published by St.Martin's Press in October 1999,
mistakes were made by both St.Martin's and the author. The afterword of this
book includes circumstantial evidence, confirmed to the author by three
unnamed sources, about Bush's arrest for cocaine possession in 1972, and
how daddy got the record expunged after Junior performed community service.
St.Martin's chose to sensationalize this tiny portion of an otherwise solid
book, and found itself under tremendous pressure as one interview after
another was cancelled. Then the author falsely denied to a Dallas reporter
that he was the same as one James H. Hatfield, a convicted felon. With
Hatfield's continued refusal to name his sources for the Bush cocaine story,
this false denial was just the excuse that St.Martin's needed. They promptly
took their cue from the other rats in our major media, and abandoned ship.
All copies were recalled and burned.
The book itself, however, is responsible, thoroughly-researched, and
well-documented, and nothing about the author can change this simple fact.
The pressure that St.Martin's felt was entirely political, not legal; their
own lawyer, plus an outside firm, had already scrutinized everything. So a
"punk" alternative publisher, Soft Skull Press, reprinted it in full with
additional material. Sometimes it helps to be too small to crush.
ISBN 1-887128-50-6
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