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Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush
by: Robert Draper

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931092
EAN: 9780743277280
ISBN: 0743277287
Label: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: September 17, 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Studio: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Sales Rank: 159817

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- Balanced perspective
The author of this book, has on the whole written a balanced account of President Bush's first 6 years in office. There are some rather journalistic lampoons sprinkled throughout the book, but he also writes sympathicaically about Bush where it was due, for instance his relationship with his father, the 41st president and his genuine religious beliefs. So overall a surprisingly unbiased book given the very partisan viewpoints that exist about the 43rd president.

That the author had any decree of personal access to Bush is a bit surprising given the hostile attitude that the President has admitted he has against the fourth estate. But the author does reveal a wide range of candid anecdotes that illustrates some of the reasoning ... Read More:

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- The Rise and Fall of Bushworld
Robert Draper does a fine job of limning the Bush rise to power, less well describing the challenges of his second term, where the book is weakest. The chapters on Bush's early days in Texas can be compared to Robert Caro's on LBJ early rise to power, and Draper is a fine ironist as well, following to a degree the wonderful Tom Wolfe school of journalistic writing.

One of the most astonishing scenes depicted is Bush's meeting with a brain trust assembled at George Schultz's home prior to Bush's decision to seek the nomination in 2000. Evidently, the boy wonder wowed the assembled wise men (and women), which leads one to serious doubts about the actual level of judgment members of this group were capable of exercising. There is perhaps ... Read More:

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