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Explores the whole Bush story, distilling all that has been previously written about Bush into a defining portrait and illuminating the fateful choices and key decisions that led George W., and thereby the country, into its current predicament.--From publisher description.
6) Bush
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xxii, 808 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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A biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself, most in invading Iraq, and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious faith.
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xii, 497 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 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 while writing about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments.
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xii, 800 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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"From the senior White House correspondent for The New York Times comes the definitive history of the Bush and Cheney White House--a tour de force narrative of those dramatic and controversial eight years. Taking readers into the offices of the West Wing and the cabins of Air Force One, Peter Baker tells the gripping inside story of the Bush and Cheney era. Theirs was the most fascinating American partnership since Nixon and Kissinger, an untested...
10) Landfall
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xiii, 473 pages ; 25 cm
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Landfall has at its center a president whose high-speed shifts between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self-pity, continually energize and mystify those around him -- including his acerbic and crafty mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush; the desperately correct but occasionally unbuttoned Condoleezza Rice; the gnomic and manipulative Donald Rumsfeld; and the caustic observer Ann Richards (Bush's predecessor as governor of Texas). A gallery...
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xvi, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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A man who spent nearly eight years in the White House as President George W. Bush's key point of contact to American conservatives and the faith-based world explains why he believes most of the 43rd president's in-office decisions were made for the greater good, and how many of them could serve as a blueprint for a more thoughtful, confident conservatism.
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240 pages ; 24 cm
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With relentless media coverage, it is hard to believe that we still might not know some of the most significant facts about the presidency of George W. Bush. Yet beneath the surface events of the Bush presidency lies a secret history that involves domestic spying, abuses of power, and outrageous operations. It includes a CIA that became caught in a political crossfire that it could not withstand, and what it did to respond. It includes a Defense Department...
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191 pages, 2 folded leaves : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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President George W. Bush presents a collection of oil paintings and stories of servicemen and women who have served our nation with honor since 9/11-- and whom he has come to know personally. Growing out of his own outreach, and the ongoing work of the George W. Bush Institute's Military Service Initiative, each painting is accompanied by the inspiring story of the veteran depicted. These stories of courage and resilience honor our men and women in...
17) Fahrenheit 9/11
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Through actual footage, interviews, and declassified documents, Michael Moore illustrates the connections President Bush has to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the bin Laden's, how the president got elected on fraudulent circumstances and then proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When the treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to...
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xiv, 341 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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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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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. Now Jenna and Barbara...
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