Bush - Want It All

Bush

Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year

Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a â€œcomprehensive and compellingâ€ (The New York Times) life of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himselfâ€”most disastrously in invading Iraqâ€”and how these decisions were often driven by the Presidentâ€™s deep religious faith.

George W. Bush, the forty-third president of the United States, almost singlehandedly decided to invade Iraq. It was possibly the worst foreign-policy decision ever made by a president. The consequences dominated the Bush Administration and still haunt us today.

In Bush, a â€œwell-rounded portraitâ€¦necessary and valuable in this election yearâ€ (Christian Science Monitor), Jean Edward Smith demonstrates that it was not Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, or Condoleezza Rice, but President Bush himself who took personal control of foreign policy. Bush drew on his deep religious conviction that important foreign-policy decisions were simply a matter of good versus evil. Domestically, he overreacted to 9/11 and endangered Americansâ€™ civil liberties. Smith explains that it wasnâ€™t until the financial crisis of 2008 that Bush finally accepted expert advice. As a result, he authorized decisions that saved the economy from possible collapse, even though some of those decisions violated Bushâ€™s own political philosophy.

â€œAn excellent initial assessment of a presidency that began in controversyâ€¦and ended with the international and domestic failures that saddled Bush with the most sustained negative ratings of any modern presidentâ€ (Dallas Morning News), this comprehensive evaluation will surely surprise many readers. â€œWritten in sober, smooth, snark-free prose, with an air of thoughtful, detached authority, the book is nonetheless exceedingly damning in its judgments about George W. Bushâ€™s years in officeâ€ (The Washington Post).
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-07-05
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-07-05
Format	Kindle eBook