George Herbert Walker Bush (Penguin Lives) - Hardcover

Wicker, Tom

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9780670033034: George Herbert Walker Bush (Penguin Lives)

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ISBN 10: 0670033030 ISBN 13: 9780670033034

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2004

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Hardcover. Pub Date: 2004 Pages: 228 Publisher: Penguin No one is more qualified to give a fully rounded objective portrait of our forty-first president than Tom Wicker A Political Correspondent for The New York Times for more than thirty years. Wicker was a first-hand witness to and reporter of George HW Bushas political rise and presidential reign. In George Herbert Walker Bush. Wicker provides a richly drawn and succinct overview of Bush from his New England roots. his decorated service in World War II. and his successful oil businesses to his shift to politics and rapid rise within the Republican party. As he describes changes within the Republican party in recent decades. Wicker charts Bushas career. including in-depth analysis of his campaign tactics and his gift for creating friendships and inspiring loyalty which. Wicker argues. has been the key to Bushas success. Th...

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A revealing and objective portrait of America's forty-first president chronicles George H. W. Bush's life, from his New England roots and his decorated military service during World War II to his business success and political rise within the Republican party. 40,000 first printing.

About the Author:

Tom Wicker covered American politics at The New York Times from 1960 to the early 1990s, when he succeeded Arthur Krock as writer of the “In the Nation” column. He is the author of several books of nonfiction, including One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream, and JFK and LBJ, as well as several novels.

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