N.Y. Timesman's Book Shows Cheney With Hitler Mustache

The cover of the British edition of a new book by Bush-bashing New York Times columnist Paul Krugman carries a photo of Vice President Dick Cheney defaced with an Adolf Hitler-style mustache.

Krugman's American publisher, W.W. Norton & Co., uses a much more mundane cover with no photographs for his attack screed, "The Great Unraveling: From Boom to Bust in Three Scandalous Years."

But the cover of the British edition is emblazoned with a photo of the vice president sporting an oil mustache in the style favored by the Third Reich dictator. The words "Got Oil?" are dripped across Cheney's forehead.

Published in Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin books, Krugman's book cover also carries an image of President Bush with Frankenstein-like stitches across his mouth and the word "Enron" dripped in oil across his forehead.

Reached by phone in London last night, Rosie Glaisher, a Penguin publicist, told the New York Sun that she was unaware of any controversy regarding the book cover.

Efforts to reach columnist Krugman through his publicist and his office at Princeton University, where he is a professor, were unsuccessful, the Sun said.

But W.W. Norton & Co. indicated to the paper that it had been notified of the British marketing plan.

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