With wit and anger, What Happened Here takes us through the administration of the Bush junta: the inauguration of George Dubya, September 11, the invention of the War on Terror, the real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the often bizarre behaviour of the Republican party. Ranging from first-person journalism to political analysis to a kind of documentary prose poetry, Eliot Weinberger teases out the nightmarish absurdities of the Bush administration with incisive, ferocious elegance.