... "Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq," which is a finalist for this year's National Book Award in nonfiction, so much as the "righteous expansionist vocabulary" that enshrouded it. "The boilerplate," as he calls it, of "innocence, virtue, and 'our freedoms.'"
"These," Dower writes, "were the ghosts behind the ghostwriters behind George W. Bush."
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