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"Drawing extensively on exclusive access and interviews with both Bush presidents, Updegrove reveals for the first time their influences and perspectives on each other?s presidencies; their views on family, public service, and America?s role in the world; and their unvarnished thoughts on Donald Trump, and the radical transformation of the Republican Party he now leads. In 2016 George W. Bush lamented privately that he might be “the last Republican...
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 294 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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George W. Bush covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his pioneering work in the Texas oil business, and his political rise as a Congressman, U.S. Representative to China and the United Nations, CIA Director, Vice President, and 41st President of the United States.
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Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
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xii, 497 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
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Decision points is the memoir of America's 43rd president. George W. Bush offers a candid journey through the defining decisions of his life and his presidency, writing about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2008
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xvi, 487 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.
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Bob Woodward's fourth book about the Bush presidency at war declassifies the secrets of America's political and military involvement in Iraq. Woodward once again pulls back the curtain on Washington to reveal the inner workings of a government at war.
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
208 pages
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"In this powerful new collection of oil paintings and stories, President George W. Bush spotlights the inspiring journeys of America's immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of our nation. The issue of immigration stirs intense emotions today, as it has throughout much of American history. But what gets lost in the debates about policy are the stories of immigrants themselves, the people who are drawn to America by its...
10) Checkpoint
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
115 p. ; 20 cm.
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"Jay and Ben are old friends who haven't seen each other in a few years. A former teacher who has fallen on hard times, Jay is very, very upset about the war in Iraq. He has expressed his objections by marching in an antiwar demonstration in the nation's capital, but the protest has had no effect. Now Jay has asked Ben, a writer currently working on a book about the cold war, to bring a tape recorder to a Washington, D.C., hotel room because Jay wants...
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Based on research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush's diaries and to his family, Destiny and Power paints a portrait of the distinctive American life of a man from the Greatest Generation: his childhood in Connecticut, his heroic service in World War II, his entry into the Texas oil business, and his storied rise in politics from congressman to U.N. ambassador to head of the CIA to forty-first president of the United States....
12) Landfall
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiii, 473 pages ; 25 cm
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Set during the tumultuous middle of the George W. Bush years-amid the twin catastrophes of the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane Katrina-Landfall brings Thomas Mallon's cavalcade of contemporary American politics, which began with Watergate and continue with Finale, to a vivid and emotional climax. The president at the novel's center possesses a personality whose high-speed alternations between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self-pity, continually...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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"As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency, including being at his side when he died and subsequently facing the challenge-and great honor-of being in charge of his state funeral. Full of heart and wisdom, THE MAN I KNEW is a vibrant behind-the-scenes look into the ups and downs of heading up the office of a former president by one of the people who knew him best....
15) W
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq are featured.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
560 pages
Description
"From New York Times bestselling celebrity biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli comes Grace & Steel, the epic, hidden history of the exceptional women behind the greatest political dynasty of all time-the Bush family. Bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the unsung heroines of the inimitable Bush family dynasty: not only First Ladies Barbara and Laura, but other colorful women whose stories have been left out of history for far too long, including...
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Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 341 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
The former White House press secretary examines how and why the Bush administration went awry, providing a look at George W. Bush and his top aides in terms of such crises as Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war, and Washington's political infighting.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xi, 238 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father's side when he took the same oath. They spent their college years watched over by Secret Service agents and became fodder for the tabloids, with teenage mistakes making national headlines. But the tabloids didn't tell the whole story. In SISTERS FIRST,...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2007
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vii, 437 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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An expose? of the secret relationship between neo-conservative policy makers and the Christian right argues that Middle East instability reflects an ongoing battle between fundamentalist groups, in an account that cites Bush's role in promoting the war in Iraq.
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Carolina Productions
Pub. Date
c2004
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1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Takes the viewer behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons for fighting a "preemptive" war against Iraq that wasn't necessary. Includes interviews with more than 20 experts in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq.
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