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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781400067657)
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x#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In this "illuminating" (USA Today) biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush.
"Destiny and Power reflects the qualities of both subject and biographer: judicious, balanced, deliberative, with a deep appreciation of history and the personalities who shape it."--The New York Times Book Review ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times. From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his study in the private quarters of the White House to Air Force One, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the first Gulf War to the end of Communism, Destiny and Power charts the thoughts, decisions, and emotions of a modern president who may have been the last of his kind. This is the human story of a man who was, like the nation he led, at once noble and flawed. From the Pacific to the presidency, Destiny and Power charts the vicissitudes of the life of this quietly compelling American original. Meacham sheds new light on the rise of the right wing in the Republican Party, a shift that signaled the beginning of the end of the center in American politics. Destiny and Power is an affecting portrait of a man who, driven by destiny and by duty, forever sought, ultimately, to put the country first.
Author: Jon Meacham
ISBN-10: 1400067650
ISBN-13: 9781400067657
Publisher: Random House
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2015
Pages: 864
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.80d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/15/2015 pg. 61
New York Times Book Review 11/15/2015 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 11/22/2015 pg. 34
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/06/2015 pg. 27
Publishers Weekly 01/18/2016
New York Review of Books 02/25/2016 pg. 13
Library Journal 06/15/2015
"Destiny and Power reflects the qualities of both subject and biographer: judicious, balanced, deliberative, with a deep appreciation of history and the personalities who shape it."--The New York Times Book Review ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times. From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his study in the private quarters of the White House to Air Force One, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the first Gulf War to the end of Communism, Destiny and Power charts the thoughts, decisions, and emotions of a modern president who may have been the last of his kind. This is the human story of a man who was, like the nation he led, at once noble and flawed. From the Pacific to the presidency, Destiny and Power charts the vicissitudes of the life of this quietly compelling American original. Meacham sheds new light on the rise of the right wing in the Republican Party, a shift that signaled the beginning of the end of the center in American politics. Destiny and Power is an affecting portrait of a man who, driven by destiny and by duty, forever sought, ultimately, to put the country first.
Author: Jon Meacham
ISBN-10: 1400067650
ISBN-13: 9781400067657
Publisher: Random House
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2015
Pages: 864
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.60w x 1.80d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/15/2015 pg. 61
New York Times Book Review 11/15/2015 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 11/22/2015 pg. 34
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/06/2015 pg. 27
Publishers Weekly 01/18/2016
New York Review of Books 02/25/2016 pg. 13
Library Journal 06/15/2015
By Jon Meacham
xJon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. The author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, and The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, he is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville and in Sewanee with his wife and children.
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