The Bush administration and Wall Street lobbyists are exerting their best efforts at salesmanship. They have fabricated a crisis in an attempt to sell us another colossal lie, one that could be used to justify ending Social Security as we know it.For Americans to sort through the inundation of conflicting messages on this topic, we must understand who is behind the campaign to privatize Social Security, what this campaign aims to achieve, and how it misrepresents its goals. Here to expose the swindle is Joe Conason, bestselling author of Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth and columnist for Salon.com and the New York Observer. The Raw Deal: How The Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal includes an introduction by Al Franken, host of Air America's The Al Franken Show, and a foreword by James Roosevelt Jr., grandson of the creator of the New Deal.