President Bush talks constantly about ethics and values. They underpin all his public pronouncements, whether he is declaring war on the "axis of evil" or announcing tax cuts. This book is an attempt to hold his policies and actions as a president up to an ethical standard, including his own. But it goes beyond that: it is also a study of a distinctively American ethic, for many of its features are not widely shared elsewhere in the developed world.Peter Singer's examination of Bush's ethics asks whether they are anything more than self-serving - an important question, since the actions which follow the rhetoric affect the lives of everyone on the planet.