Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush / Jon Meacham.

Meacham, Jon, author.
New York : Random House, 2015.
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Chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush’s personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints a portrait of a 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. Meacham presents Bush’s candid assessments of many of the critical figures of the age, ranging from Richard Nixon to Nancy Reagan Mao to Mikhail Gorbachev Dick Cheney to Donald Rumsfeld Henry Kissinger to Bill Clinton.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. A vanished universe, Beginnings to 1942 — Part II. War and marriage, 1942 to 1948 — Part III. Texas and tragedy, 1948 to 1966 — Part IV. The wars of Washington, 1966 to 1977 — Part V. The age of Reagan, 1977 to 1989 — Part VI. The awesome responsibility, 1989 to 1993 — Part VII. In the twilight, 1993 to 2016.

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