594 Pages
by
Routledge
576 Pages
by
Routledge
576 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the first full biography of the former president, award-winning historian and biographer Herbert S. Parmet draws from George Bush's personal papers to look at the man who led America through the end of the Cold War. Enriched by access to Bush's private diaries, the book provides an intimate portrait of the forty-first president, and corrects many long-held misconceptions about him.Parmet shows... Read more
One: Down East; Two: Poppy as Preppy; Three: Poppy at War; Four: In Search of Black Gold; Five: On the Permian Basin; Six: Harris County; Seven: The Bush Circle; Eight: “Labels Are for Cans”; Nine: “Rubbers”; Ten: Good-bye to Texas; Eleven: Nixon and China; Twelve: “Head Spook”; Thirteen: The Man in the Brooks Brothers Suit; Fourteen: The Rise of the Lone Star Yankee; Fifteen: The Haunting of the Vice Presidency; Sixteen: Casey’s Kind of Guy; Seventeen: “With a Wink and a Nod”; Eighteen: “A Flag Too Far”; Nineteen: “Reagan Doesn’t Work Here Anymore”; Twenty: “It’s Six P.M. and We Don’t Know Where Noriega Is”; Twenty-One: “Kind of Drifting”; Twenty-Two: “Give Me the Strength to Do What Is Right”; Twenty-Three: “With High Fidelity”
Biography
Judith T. Marcus
