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BUSH

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Nearly eight years after George W. Bush left White House, his legacy still shapes American policy at home and abroad. Award-winning historian and biographer Jean Smith has written the most complete account yet of the Bush presidency in this revelatory biography of America's forty-third president.

A lackluster student with a fondness for alcohol, "W" became a born-again Christian and turned his life around. His deep religious faith rescued his character, but it gave hi, a worldview that oversimplified complicated problems. For Bush, life was a struggle between good and evil, and he never doubted that he was God's agent for good. In the fight against the evil of terrorism, other countries were either with us or against us, as he once said. Certain of the morality of his actions, he had no misgivings about detaining terrorist suspects indefinitely at Guantanamo or authoring unconstitutional surveillance activities in the name of fighting terrorism.

Bush called himself "the decider", and Smith says that it was an apt description. Others have insisted that Vice President Dick Cheney made key foreign policy decisions in the Bush White House, but Smith shows that it was the president who was in charge, often acting without or even against the counsel of his advisers. No other president in modern times acted with such self assured autonomy.

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Series Title

biography

Call Number

923.1 SMI b

Publisher

New York : The Simon & Schuster., 2016

Collation

xii, 812 p.; ilus.; 24 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4767-4119-2

Classification

923.1

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Edition

First Edition, Juli 2016

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biography

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