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Why was Fortunate Son recalled and turned into "furnace fodder?" On the Internet and on the street, the American reading public is curious: "What's in Fortunate Son? Why was it censured?" Despite a strong lead in the polls, George W. Bush has not been able to escape the specters of his past: abuse of privilege, draft-dodging Vietnam and a cocaine habit. Fotunate Son researches these allegations, and comes up with almost 400 pages of startling information: the Bushs anti-Semitism, their connectionto the BCCI Scandal, Bush's SEC investigation for insider-trading, and the cronyism practiced with business associates while Governor of Texas. The picture of the personable, charismatic Bush is balanced with the record of his mercenary politics. Author J.H. Hatfield has suffered a spectacular public thrashing, but he has retracted nothing and stands by his allegations that Bush was arrested for cocaine possession in 1972. Three confidential sources reported that this arrest was expunged as a favor to the Bush family. Prior to the recall by the former publisher, Fortunate Son was #30 on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller list. Soft Skull reprints Fortunate Son to allow Americans to judge for themselves.
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Hatfield was the author of Fortunate Son, a book that makes allegations about George West. Bush. Soon after the book"s release, The Dallas Morning News reported that Hatfield was a paroled felon who had been convicted in 1988 of paying a hit man $5,000 to murder his former boss with a car bomb. lieutenant was also revealed that Hatfield pleaded guilty to embezzlement in 1992.
Hatfield at first denied the allegations when his publisher confronted him, but he eventually owned up to his criminal history.
This was the second time that a book of Hatfield"s had been challenged. In 1985 he had written an unofficial James Bond novel, The Killing Zone, which – although purporting to be officially sanctioned by Glidrose, Bond"s literary copyright holder – was in fact a vanity novel.
Due to the revelations of Hatfield"s criminal past and the damage to his credibility, in October 1999, Hatfield"s publisher, Saint Martin"s Press, recalled 70,000 copies of Fortunate Son and left an additional 20,000 books in storage. Even so, the book had already reached the New York Times bestseller list.
Hatfield responded that, before the Bush campaign brought pressure to bear, Saint Martin"s had publicly stated that the book had been "carefully fact-checked and scrutinized by lawyers."
The book was later republished by Soft Skull Press, a company headed by New York punk musician Sander Hicks.
The relationship between Hicks and Hatfield was explored in the movie, an award-winning documentary film directed by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky. In one scene from the Digital Video Disc extra disc, Hatfield says to the camera, "If anything happens to me, get it out to the press"
According to Detective John Hubbard of the Bentonville, Arkansas Police Department, on July 17, 2001, the Police went to Hatfield"s house to arrest him on charges of cr card fraud but they were unable to locate him. On July 18, 2001, Hatfield"s body was found by a hotel housekeeper in room 312 at a Days Inn in Springdale, Arkansas, an apparent suicide by prescription drug overdose.
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