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This book presents essays by cabinet members, world leaders, and scholars examining the formation of President George H. W. Bush's character and the factors that influenced his leadership as a legislator, a diplomat, and an American president. ... Read more

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Feeling Bushed, America?

In Thanks for the Memories, George, author and Onion contributor Mike Loew takes a humorous–yet furious–look at the last eight years of the Bush administration. From the botched evidence for the war in Iraq to the torture and violation of the Constitution to the economic crisis, this is a scathing, witty review of W’s sorry legacy, including:

•How the Taliban is spending their record opium-profits, and how Iraqis have more money than we do
•Who’s who on the no-fly list, and who is listening in on your phone calls
•The price of bread, milk, bananas, Halliburton stock . . . welcome to the Meltdown
•Everyone is a suspect
•Habeas corpus, shmabeas corpus
•The welfare queens of Wall Street
•We don’t sign no stinkin’ treaties

Complete with funny and shocking charts and graphs, Thanks for the Memories, George is a timely reminder of just how we arrived at this sorry state as we struggle to put the long nightmare of the Bush years behind us.


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Slightly funnier Keith Olbermann
I cannot stand George Bush, so I looked forward to reading this book. I was disappointed, though, as this book is adequate at best. It wasn't that funny; in fact it was fairly tedious. It was like reading 8 years of transcripts of Keith Olbermann's show. There were a few funny lines, but not nearly enough to justify buying Thanks for the Memories. ... Read more

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"We are not the sum of our possessions. They are not the measures of our lives. In our hearts, we know what matters. We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend; a loving parent; a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood, and town better than he found it."

-- from President George H. W. Bush's Inaugural Address, January 21, 1989

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Core Values: Faith, Family, and Friends
"Heartbeat" is a collection of excerpts from the speeches and writing of President George H. W. Bush.The compilation delineates those "core" values that defined the policies and personal goals of Bush's presidency.The book is organized into chapters corresponding to his presidential years (1989-1992) with an additional chapter concentrating on his post-presidency.The writings,which characterize the "core" values consistently addressed, are presentedin sub-sections in each chapter.These are: Faith, Family, and Friends; The Vision Thing; A Legacy of Service; and In the Arena.This is a convenient organizational tool which allows the reader, should he/she choose, to follow a particular thread through each of the four years of the president's term.Of course one may choose the conventional method of a chapter by chapter reading.I actually did both, occasionally flipping back and forth through the chapters as I read to remind myself of a particular point previously made.

I found the book to be absorbing and entertaining reading.Having visited the Bush Library in College Station, Texas, I was not surprised by the sense of honor, duty and love of country that permeates the text.Nor was I surprised and the wonderful rather self-deprecating sense of humor that pops up in sometime unexpected places.

All-in-all this is an effortless way to get an elementary grasp of the issues and complexities which confronted America at a time when events leading to The World Trade Center atrocity were already continuing to build.

A fitting tribute to a great man!
The author, Jim McGrath, has compiled a well-edited look at the life of the former President.Readers who want a "behind the scenes" look of life in the White House without all the needless commentary should purchase this book immediately!!This is a must read for anyone interested in political life. ... Read more

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Bestselling author John Gibson shows that George W. Bush was the victim of a concentrated effort by Democrats and their allies in the press to discredit and distort virtually everything he did. That effort was amazingly successful.

Was George W. Bush really the worst president in American history? Was the Iraq War really the biggest foreign policy blunder of all recorded time? Did Bush really steal the 2000 election, make war on civil rights, torture innocent goatherds, and prove America's racism during Hurricane Katrina?

If this is what you think, then you may have been swiftboated by the liberal media.

Swiftboating, as it has come to be defined by the left, is the political trick of claiming to expose the truth while in fact lying. The swiftboating of George W. Bush began in 2000 and continued throughout his presidency, involving his response to 9/11, the Iraq War, warrantless wiretapping, enhanced interrogation techniques, the Surge, uranium from Niger, the number of deaths in Iraq, the federal response to Katrina, and much, much more.

One only has to look at the charges leveled against the Bush administration by candidate Barack Obama to witness the success of this campaign. Obama ran for president and won on the left's extensive catalog of lies about George W. Bush.

Moreover, once in office, Obama and the left continued to use these same techniques to swiftboat the Republican opposition. Obama constantly complained that he had inherited a "mess" in Iraq and blamed the "failed ideology" of free-market capitalism for the financial collapse that helped elect him. Meanwhile, his media allies attacked Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, the tea party movement, and the health-care protestors as "racists" for opposing Obama's agenda.

In How the Left Swiftboated America, talk radio host and bestselling author John Gibson sets the record straight. Gibson shows that, in case after case across the board, Bush's performance was much better than most people now believe. And he calls on all Americans to fight back and put an end to the swiftboating lies of the left.

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A review from somebody who actually read the book.
I bought the book after seeing so many bad reviews by leftists who had obviously never read the book and who have no intention of ever doing so because it might make them think. Don't bother reading the one star reviews as they are just leftist ranters.

This book examines how the political left deliberately and viciously set out to destroy the presidency of George W. Bush. It details many of the myths started by the propaganda machine of the left and explains why they were mostly wrong. It follows, at length, several "reporters" ranting and raving about how President Bush was the cause of all of the evils faced by this nation and, indeed, the whole world. It showed how the media bias went from a slant to outright hypocrisy and even treason.

The book covers, in depth, the election victory and the bogus court cases started by Al Gore, the Valerie Plame affair, the distortion of and outright invention of statistics in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the myth about torture and the general leftist machine that was set up to bring the conservative movement down.

I was going to give it four stars because, while good and well researched, it did not have too much that was new for me. I had already thought that many on the left would be thoroughly disappointed when President Bush left office but somehow the world still had problems. I decided on five stars as the main value of the book is to show just how low the left will sink to achieve its goals.

If you are a committed leftist, don't bother. You wouldn't recognise the truth if it hit you over the head with a hammer.

If you started out neutral toward the Bush Presidency and ended up not liking him or even hating him you should try reading this book. I didn't really like President Bush but I did respect him as a good and decent man and I recognised the symptoms of Bush Derangement Syndrome long before it had a name.

Bush WAS terrible & was NOT Swiftboated
The right wing screams foul if the press tells the truth...

First, this title is ridiculous.Swiftboating is what Bush did when facing John Kerry, a man who fought and was wounded in Vietnam, while Bush's daddy pulled strings to get him assigned to Texas.Bush spent lots of time bravely protecting Texas taverns, then asked to be reassigned to another base, and never bothered to show up. The commanding officer says he never saw the guy.While Kerry had a band of brothers that spoke for him, no one ever came forward to back Bush's story (lies) and say they served with Bush at this base, and Bush said he "couldn't remember" what he did at the base (very believable!).So Swiftboating was Bush doing character assassination in the area he himself was most vulnerable.

Bush was "Swiftboated" only if the claims the so-called evil liberal media made are lies.Was Bush really the worst president we've ever had?Afraid so...Just a few things:

2000 Election--It is well documented that many thousands of Florida blacks were illegally taken off the voter lists by Jeb Bush and Kathryn Harris, who falsely claimed these people were felons.When cheating didn't get Bush a decisive victory, he got his Republican buddies on the Supreme Court to put him in office in what many legal scholars say is the worst Supreme Court decision ever. It was so bad that the Court said it was not a precedent for future cases--and making precedent is the Court's job.

Once in office, Bush was a President who religiously implemented policies that serve the wealthy, at the expense of everyone else.This necessitated lying to the public at every turn.

9/11--Something fishy happened there.Bush fought like mad to try to prevent an investigation.Either Bush screwed up royally, or it was an inside job, as many people have charged.Bush's approval ratings, which were utterly dismal on September 10, went through the roof after Sept. 11--and the GOP got to pass the "PATRIOT" (sic) Act, which conveniently was all set to go.

Iraq war:Bush insiders have revealed that Bush was obsessed with having a war with Iraq from day one of his Presidency.Clearly, Bush was lying to us.He implied the invasion had to do with 9/11, but it was Saudis, not Iraqis who allegedly did the 9/11 attacks. For no good reason, he got us into a war that cost thousands of American lives, decimated a nation that neither attacked nor threatened us, and cost us over a trillion dollars.Wondering why the economy crashed?Could it have something to do with flushing money down the Iraq toilet?

Tax cuts: Bush sought to out-Reagan even Ronald Reagan inthe disgraceful policy of borrowing money to give cuts to the very rich.His deceptively titled, "Tax Cuts for Working Americans," cost the treasury hundreds of billions of dollars, and most Americans got a few hundred dollars out of the deal.The elites, however cashed in big.Dick Cheney, for example, got a tax cut of $2.4 million.Plus, polls showed that the public overwhelmingly opposed these tax cuts.People thought, sensibly, but if we have all this money, why don't we just pay off the deficit?Bush also allowed wealthy corporations to open an offshore office, thereby avoiding paying any corporate income tax--and allowed the children of millionaires and billionaires to inherit fortunes without paying a penny in tax.Again, the Republicans deceptively misnamed their effort to repeal the Estate Tax, pulling the wool over people's eyes by telling them that they were against the "Death Tax."Wondering why we have deficits?Look no further.

Deregulation:Bush hurt the average American deeply by taking Reagan's deregulatory policies to ridiculous levels.Again and again, the corporate executives were allowed to write regulations that control their industries.One of the first acts of Bush and his GOP Congress upon taking power was to repeal OSHA regulations that would have prevented many thousands of crippling injuries to American working people every year.Other deregulation brought us Bernie Madoff, Enron, the mortgage banking scandal, and the utter collapse of our economy. Thanks, Bush.

Furthermore, I suspect that Bush doesn't regret anything that he did.The high rates of foreclosures, job loss, and the other untold suffering that the American people are experiencing as a result of the collapse of the economy are just collateral damage for the effort to put the greedy billionaires in charge of America.Ronald Reagan once said that he wanted America to be a country in which a man could get really, really rich.Bush and Reagan made that happen.The rest of us are suffering.

An added bonus was that Bush claimed the title of the All Time Vacation King, smashing Ronald Reagan's impressive record for sloth.

In short, Bush is the worst president that we've ever had.

A Must Read for Anybody Who Cares About America
John Gibson has pulled together an excellent synopsis of what was a concerted effort to undermine the president of the United States.In the early 2000s, in the aftermath of 9/11, George W. Bush was a popular president.In the 2002 mid-term elections, the Republicans actually picked up seats in both houses of Congress.This is something which is rare in politics, as the party not in possession of the presidency usually has the upper hand.Democrats were facing the possibility of being out of power for, perhaps, a long time.Something had to be done to discredit Bush and, therefore, his party to help Democrats regain power.The left developed a comprehensive scheme to attack Bush directly, and indirectly, at all costs.The time period immediately following the 9/11 attacks would be the last time there would be cooperation between the parties."How the Left Swiftboated America" is a comprehensive study of the key events which defined and undid the Bush presidency.The author, John Gibson, examines Bush's reasons for going to war in Iraq, the circumstances surrounding the Katrina disaster in New Orleansand "torture" of 9/11 suspects among other things.The reader is also provided extensive background details of key media personalities, including Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart among others.Gibson demonstrates how media is filled with left wing zealots who contributed mightily to the dismantling of George W. Bush's reputation.He also shows the hypocrisy within the anti-Bush rhetoric as many of the same voices simultaneously accused Bush of being an incompetent ignoramous and a ruthless conniving dictator.Gibson points out how most of the reasons Bush used for going to war were the same ones prominent Democrats had been trumpeting for years, yet Bush was accused of being a liar for using these very ideas.We learn of the incompetence of local Democrat leaders in New Orleans (the mayor) and Louisiana (governor) in properly executing an evacuation of the city prior to the hurricane which ultimately flooded the area.Yet, it was Bush alone who took virtually all of the criticism for the aftermath of Katrina.Not all of the evidence provided by Gibson is equally powerful; however, he makes an extremely persuasive case.

Those who always hated our former president will not be moved by Gibson's work; some people have their minds made up and will not be swayed with facts.However, for those with a more open mind, "How the Left Swiftboated America" is an important read.After all, it was the deliberate effort by Democrats to undermine Bush which led to the takeover of Washington, D.C. by some of the most left wing politicians ever to hold such high offices.Bush's undoing has directly led to a government takeover of healthcare, potential cap and trade policies and who knows what else to come.Had the left been less successful in dismantling Bush, the Democrats would have been far less likely to amass 60 seats in the Senate, a huge margin in the House and the presidency at the same time.Gibson's book does not delve much into the economic side of the Bush presidency.For that story, I would recommend "Architects of Ruin" by John Schweizer, which is an outstanding expose' of how our economy was mortgaged by government liberals to advance a social agenda, all while many of them pocketed millions of dollars in the process.Ironically, the economic collapse was also blamed on President Bush while many of those who had a much larger role in the mess now have prominent roles within the Obama Administration.

Thank you John Gibson
O thank you John Gibson for letting me love George Bush again. Now that I know that the reason I hate him is because I've been brain washed, I'm going to run off and scrub every blog post and comment I've made about him for the last 9 years.

I accept the corporate media that was silent as a mouse when the Republicans staged their coup in December 2000 and put Bush in the Oval Office.I accept the corporate media that fell silent when the anthrax attacks were launched against liberal Democrats that were resisting the "Patriot Act." I accept corporate media that goose-stepped along with Bush and Cheney and the warmongers in starting Bush's imperial war of aggression against the Iraqi people.I accept the corporate media that fell silent in the face of seven million votes being flipped electronically from Kerry to Bush in the 2004 Presidential Election.

Please can I have another serving, Mr. Gibson?

Unabashedly Partisan But Rigorously Researched
John Gibson writes this story of repeated political tarring from the standpoint of a conservative radio host and writer, and from that of an experienced network newsman. Beginning with a review of the process by which the Swiftboat group tirelessly aired their take on John Kerry's behavior in Vietnam and his charges against our servicemen thereafter, which ultimately derailed his presidential bid, Gibson argues that the same technique was used by the left to denigrate George W. Bush and to imperil American. Gibson, of course, feels that the factual basis of the two campaigns differed significantly.

Gibson's animus is for the networks which he claims prostituted themselves for ratings and the on-air talent who, he contends, perpetrated a strategy of endless distortion and exaggeration. He explores the Plame affair, and probes deeply into extended interrogation techniques, the extent of their actual employment, and how they were blended in the public mind with the criminal behavior of some poorly trained soldiers at Abu Ghraib. Gibson's take is that when the left press got done with slanting the news and inventing statistics the American public was very poorly served.

The author is unabashedly partisan, but employs dates and names rigorously. You owe it to yourself to read this.

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“You can’t worry about being vindicated, because the truth of the matter is, when you do big things, it’s going to take a while for history to really understand.” —President Bush, in an exclusive interview with Fred Barnes for Rebel-in-Chief

With Rebel-in-Chief, veteran political reporter Fred Barnes provides the defining book on George W. Bush’s presidency, giving an insider’s view of how Bush’s unique presidential style and bold reforms are dramatically remaking the country—and, indeed, the world. In the process, Barnes shows, the president is shaking up Washington and reshaping the conservative movement.

Barnes has gained extraordinary access to the Bush administration for Rebel-in-Chief, conducting rare one-on-one interviews with President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and many other close presidential advisers. That access, along with Barnes’s extensive independent reporting and interviewing, produces an eye-opening look at this highly consequential—and controversial—presidency.

Rebel-in-Chief reveals:

• How Bush acts as an “insurgent force” in the nation’s capital—“a different kind of president” who is turning the Washington establishment on its ear

• How Bush is redefining conservatism for a new era—and creating a new Republican majority

• The inside story of how Bush has revolutionized American foreign policy—and how the president's crusade for democracy would have been anathema to Bush himself only five years ago

• When and why Bush decided to go into Iraq, even knowing that he was putting his political future at risk

• How a White House aide you've probably never heard of is shaping the Bush vision

• The surprising and important ways Bush's faith affects critical presidential decisions

• How Bush has outmaneuvered his political opponents and surprised members of the press who have dismissed him as an intellectual bantamweight

• How Bush routinely defies conventional wisdom because of his contempt for elite opinion and halfway reforms (“small-ball,” he calls them)—and why he usually wins

George W. Bush billed himself as a “different kind of Republican.” He has proved to be a different kind of president, too. And Fred Barnes’s riveting behind-the-scenes account helps us understand how much this “Rebel-in-Chief ” is reshaping the world around us.




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FINALLY SOME APPRECIATION FOR A GREAT MAN
The main review at the beginning of this page states that everything in this book shows Bush to be right and everyone else to be wrong.I did not find that to be so.Even if this were true, isn't it time to have a book that does tell the good about a man who was our president for the past eight years!I am sick of the Bush bashing that I have listened to for so long.There is nothing about this presidency that could possibly equal the horrible things done during the Clinton era, yet Bush is ridiculed as being stupid, a thief, etc.

I believe history will show that President Bush was one of our finest presidents.I put him along side Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.I hope our country survives the next presidency so that we will be allowed to read about the great things George W. Bush did accomplish.

the devil is in the details
This is the second book I've read now regarding the politics surrounding the Bush Whitehouse. The first was Daydream Believers which offered a more critical assessment of Bush's policies. Rebel in Chief is a glowing and sometimes sycophantic laud of Bush. Instead of focusing on those surrounding the president, Rebel in Chief is much narrower in scope. And hence this may be why Bush comes off like such a maverick and hero.

Subjectivity aside, Barnes paints a picture of the president that I have seen elsewhere: a highly principled, idealistic leader of men who is not afraid of public opinion and sincerely wants to spread democracy. Bush believes that democracy is natural to mankind and can therefore be grown abroad. What I do not see in Bush, is an adherence to the Constitution and the ideals of the founding fathers. Bush may have democratic ideals but they're not necessarily American ones. This subtle shift is exemplified in the new conservatism that Bush is a poster boy for according to Barnes; it's a big government conservatism. An oxymoron for sure, but one that Barnes thinks most Americans are willing to warmly embrace. I find this brand of conservatism distressing for the fact that it continues the trend of giving power to the federal government and forever lessening the independence of the states. Bush's big government conservatism is a short step away from liberalism.

Barnes believes that Bush has been a huge success in `Republican ascendancy'. He says that red states have grown redder and blues states have shown signs of reddening. But I fear that the more correct analogy is that what we call `red' has been `bluified'.

Barnes does at times acknowledge the shortcomings of Bush but they are not dwelt on in any detail whatsoever. He does note that WMDs were not found in Iraq but leaves it at that.

Should this be the defining book on Bush? I would hope not. While an interesting read, a more critical account should also be looking into if you are planning on picking this book up.

Simplistic nonsense
Somehow, I suffered through this book. Yes, there were some interesting points. But I no longer remember them, as they were far outweighed by stupidity. This one is headed for paper recycling.

Overall, I agree with the wise reviewer who called his book "nothing more than romantic idealization."

For those who cheered the war on terror, please note, Bush effectively abandoned that long ago. His piece de resistance, as it were, accompanied 2008 plans to establish diplomatic relations with Iran---while Tehran plans tomanufacture nuclear weapons. And what of Bush's legendary do-nothing stance towards North Korea? The world must have blinked when Bush waved his magic wand and made the axis of evil go "pouf."

From our current vantage point, Barnes' simplistic glorification of Bush looks like village idiocy. Where ever does he see courage in this man, I wonder?

Liberal thinking seems lately to have sidestepped basic ideals like life and liberty. But liberals are hardly the monsters Barnes makes them out.

Conservative Republicans, meanwhile, can't possibly be as stupid as Barnes' world analysis might lead one to believe.

I doubt history will judge George W. Bush the worst president in U.S. history. Chronologically, that remains a toss-up between Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter.

But for sure, history won't judge George W. Bush the best U.S. president ever. Dream away Fred.

That halo is still best reserved for George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

No one else has to date held a candle to either of them. Nor (contrary to popular opinion) does anyone on the horizon come close.

A Condensed Version of History
For those that don't know much about history, here is a condensedversion.

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer
and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. The two most important events in all of history were:

1. The invention of beer, and

2. The invention of the wheel.

The wheel was invented to get man to the beer.

These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals.

2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to beinvented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement. Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberalmovement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest becameknown as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats,the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic votingto decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beefwell done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Anotherinteresting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injuryattorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide fortheir women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys,lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history...

It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above.

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to piss them off.


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Alexis de Tocqueville

Barne's Perspective of President Bush
Fred Barnes is a Fox television news analyst. He interviewed President George W. Bush and his top officials to report on the ways the Bush administration is using what he calls radical conservatism to effect change in the United States. This book is well written and covers foreign policy and faith-based initiatives. I will let you make up your own mind, but I will say that this book is an interesting read. ... Read more

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"Adapted from the screenplay "Tilden," Samuel Tilden the Real 19th President is based on his true election story. The GOP conspirators are many and the book reveals all the facts about the election dispute. Part Two, written by John Bigelow verifies all the details as fact. During Gore/Bush, Election 2000 dispute hundreds of reporters and legal eagles turned to this disputed election to get answers. President Hayes - was nicknamed; "Your Fraudulency and Old 7 to 8" because voters they knew he was not elected by the peoples' votes.
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The Right Man is the first inside account of a historic year in the Bush White House, by the presidential speechwriter credited with the phrase axis of evil. David Frum helped make international headlines when President George W. Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address linked international terrorists to Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. But that was only one moment during a crucial time in American history, when a president, an administration, and a country were transformed.

Frum worked with President Bush in the Oval Office, traveled with him aboard Air Force One, and studied him closely at meetings and events. He describes how Bush thinks—what this conservative president believes about religion, race, the environment, Jews, Muslims, and America’s future. Frum takes us behind the scenes of one of the most secretive administrations in recent history, with revealing portraits of Karl Rove, Karen Hughes, Condoleezza Rice, and many others. Most significant, he tells the story of the transformation of George W. Bush: how a president whose administration began in uncertainty became one of the most decisive, successful, and popular leaders of our time.

Before becoming a White House speechwriter, David Frum was a highly regarded author of books and political commentary and an influential voice on the pages of The Wall Street Journal and The Weekly Standard. His commentary has been described by William F. Buckley as “the most refreshing ideological experience in a generation.” Now, in The Right Man, we see Frum as a front-row observer and participant. Not since Peggy Noonan’s account of her time in the Reagan White House has an insider portrayed a sitting president with such precision, verve, honest admiration, and insight.

The Right Man will command international attention for its thoughtful account of George W. Bush in the midst of his greatest challenge. It will be an essential reference for anyone seeking to understand who our president really is and how he is likely to lead us in the future.


From the Hardcover edition.Amazon.com Review
According to former White House speechwriter David Frum, George W. Bush is "a good man who is not a weak man. He is impatient, quick to anger; sometimes glib, even dogmatic, often uncurious, and as a result ill-informed." All the same--well, look at the book's title. Frum chronicles a tenure spent serving a president whom he comes to admire more after the events of September 11, 2001. It is after working with Bush in times of war that Frum says of Bush "outweighing the faults are his virtues: decency, honesty, rectitude, courage, and tenacity." The Right Man creates an arc in that Frum is originally dubious of Bush's leadership capacity and ends up sold on Bush as commander-in-chief. But in truth, Frum never has far to go. He's impressed with Bush from the start and when war comes, he's more impressed. And while the book is as much about the author as the president, sections, such as an argument with Barbra Streisand and a Washington Post gossip storm may strike the reader as somewhat petty. Fortunately, there are entertaining helpings of candor: the stringent White House dress code, infighting among cabinet members, and unbelievably cool Air Force One trips. Also of particular interest are events surrounding the controversial phrase "axis of evil": Frum helps coin it, his wife boasts of that fact in an e-mail to friends, the e-mail is widely forwarded, and, soon after, Frum resigns. While both he and the White House deny he was fired, Frum is so insistent on the fact that he quit on his own that it really makes you wonder. The Right Man is a multifaceted glimpse at the life of a White House insider and a president in a time of crisis; it should appeal to readers curious to learn about the inner workings of the American presidency. --John Moe ... Read more

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Maybe not the right man but still a worthy read.
After reading this book you still may believe that Bush is 'The Right Man' for the job of presidency. On the other hand you may not feel this way but at least you've taken the first step to looking at a different perspective. Frum provides a clear framework to choose your own opinions regarding Bush and the fact that Frum was not even pro Bush before he started to work at the white house is reason enough for anyone to read this book regardless of your political sides.

Unfortunately many people will likely pass by this book for the pure reason that they are in full disbelief that Bush ever became president or has any ability to maintain a stable country as president.Whether you are pro or not for Bush, he is still the President and if there is one book that I would want to read about the background and the framework within which he works, this would be the book.Frum is a grasping writer that you're not going to fall asleep reading and you will learn new things from inside the White House and about Bush himself.You don't have to agree with Bush or Frum but it never hurts to have another view.

well...
It's a decent book. I think David Frum has a bit of an ego problem, though, because some of the things he writes about seem unlikely to have happened for someone who was hired as an economic speechwriter. If you're looking for a book to really learn about President Bush, there are definitely better ones out there.

A very interesting book
Coming from Europe it can sometimes be hard to get an inside look at Bush which is not biased against him. This book served to let me see how Bush is seen from a conservative American perspective. In that respect it was very interesting. The book is also very well written, so it's pleasant to read. It should be noted though that the book is highly partisan, as can also be understood from several of the other reviews.

The main gripe I have with this book is that some of the attitudes expressed in it are not backed up by arguments. Thus the author states that when Bush canned Clinton's national health plan he was sending the money home. He thus indirectly makes a claim that this is a good thing without going into the debate of letting a minority rich part of the population pay some extra tax to fund a national health plan that will benefit extremely poor people. He also claims that the most extreme act of Saddam Hussein was an attempt to assasinate George Bush sr. This seems to be hyperbole when you think of how many people Saddam has killed with chemical warfare.

Bush is the wrong man
and the worst president within living memory.

he took the nation into an unnecessary war with Iraq.National Intelligence Estimates tell us that this war has only made America less safe because it serves to recruit and train jihadists

his fiscal policies benefit the wealthiest two percent while they balloon the national debt.

he has curtailed environmental protections of air and water.

he favors big business and especially big oil at the expense of the working and middle class, who have to pay interest on his bloated deficit.

he cloaks his sinister agenda under a smarmy, self-congratulatory facade of religion that has nothing to do with the Jesus of the bible.

He did not protect us from 9/11 even though he was briefed that bin Laden intended to attack the US.The incompetence of John Ashcroft as attorney general reflects the poor judgment of Bush who appointed him.

Bush is the right man to prove the adage that you can fool some of the people all the time.

A useful corrective to this book is Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis by Jimmy Carter.
On the bungled invasion and occupation of Iraq:
Ralph Peters, Lt Col USA (ret), Wars of Blood and Faith: The Conflicts That Will Shape the 21st Century has a useful article on Rumsfeld that supports my review.
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich

"Bush clearly indicates in advance exactly what he will do."
Frum gives us as clear a view as possible of how President Bush thinks,what his values are,what he plans to do and how he goes about accomplishing his goals.Frum demonstrates over and over again, that the image portrayed by most of the media in North America as well as around the world could not be further from the truth.The media was so slanted against President Bush for the two years leading up to the 2004,that they even believed their own misrepresentations.They had no idea that they were so off base and that President Bush would be re-elected.They haven't got over it yet.Rather than understanding why they lost they still think the voters got it all wrong.
Frum was there and tells what it was really like.You have only to read what he tells us;then ask yourself if that wasn't really what happened.The history and facts speak for themselves.Not everyone can write about this as Frum does;since few were there as he was.The media even got it all wrong,intentionally or not,why Frum left when he did.
Frum shows how President Bush utilizes his staff,but in the final analysis he is in charge and makes the decisions;not Cheney,not Rumsfeld,not Wolfowitz,not the Polls,not the big Corporations,not Haliburton,not the Jews,not the Religious Right,not his Texas pals,not the CIA,not the military and on and on.This is what his detractors have spun for the people to believe,and the only ones they convince is themselves.
Some of the words Frum uses to describe The President are:

"Steady,efficient,controlled"

"Moderation,persistance and boldness."

"Bush was not a lightweight.He was,rather,a very unfamiliar type of heavyweight.Words often failed him,his memory sometimes failed him,but his vision was large and clear.And when he perceived new possibilities,he had the courage to act on them;a much less common virtue in politics than one might suppose."

When asked,"Is it hard to make decisions as president?Not really.If you know what you believe,decisions come pretty easy."

"Presidents are either in command of events or at their mercy."It's easy to see how that applies to President Bush.

Though portrayed by his detractors as a reckless,redneck cowboy;"Bush's great gift to the country after 9/11 was his calm and self-restraint."

Frum tells us where the expression "Axis of Evil" came from and why it was used.

Find out the real reason the US doesn't buy into the International Convention on land mines,the Koyoto Accords and the International Criminal Court

"Bush does not lie to you.You had better not lie to him."

"Read George Bush's major speeches-and nothing else-and nothing he does will come as a surprise to you.Like Babe Ruth pointing to the stands before hitting a home run,Bush clearly indicates in advance exactly what he will do."

Frum even tells us about a line that never made it into a speech as it was "too bellicose". "Those who choose America for an enemy choose their own destruction.";even though it amply describes how right-of center Americans felt.

On Sept 20,2001 ,President Bush stated,"Every nation,in every region,now has a decision to make.Either you are with us,or you are with the terrorists.From this day forward,any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded as a hostile regime."

America pleaded for the freedom loving countries to join her in this War on Terror.Many abandoned her ,Canada included,tended to side with the european detractors.With an over abundance of left wingers and Socialists,it's no wonderas they don't understand,"The tough get going when the going gets tough."

The cover on the hard cover copy of this book is excellent. If nothing else ,it should prove to you that President Bush is the right man forPresident in these times.Sure he has a whole array of people to write great lines and speeches ,lots of people to set up photo ops; but this shot was completely unorchestrated.A retired fireman beckoned his President to join him on the roof of a truck and to say something.When unable to be heard, President Bush spontaneously said "Well I can hear you."
Then his face grew serious."I can hear you."The rest of the world hears you.
And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear from all of us soon."
I suspect this photo and statement will become the defining one of his terms as President.
Frum also treated us to another great insight into working at the White House:

"Now it was time to heed Andy Card's admonition:to remember that a White House job was an honor,not a career."That sure fits as a caption for the shot of the President on the back cover,as he takes a stroll on his ranch in Crawford,Texas.It sort of reminds one of the photos of President Truman taking a stroll in Independence Missouri after retiring from his excellent Presidency.
A great book!
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This is the first volume to chronicle the story of the evolution of the symbiotic relationship between the presidential press secretaries and reporters who covered White House news during the terms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Author Woody Klein has been both a reporter (for the Washington Post and the New York World-Telegram & Sun) and a press secretary himself to New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay, who ran for president in 1972. The book reveals how the presidential press secretaries' role has evolved from old-fashioned public relations into a smooth-working system of releasing news and responding to reporters' questions at daily briefings by portraying the president in the best possible light. Klein ferrets out fresh, anecdotal information and includes interviews with nationally known personalities—including former White House press secretaries and notable journalists who have covered the White House. He brings to life the personalities and views of every presidential spokesman on how the job has grown in stature as the press secretaries or spinmeisters have become high-profile officials.

Klein reveals how the tension between government and the media—normally healthy in any democracy—has resulted in the manipulation of facts and the release of favorable official news. It started subtly in the Roosevelt administration and has been carefully honed with the transformation of the media in the information and technology revolution; he shows how it has been refined to the point where it is now recognized for what it is: slanting or packaging the news in favor of the president to make it acceptable—even desired—by the public. Perception quickly becomes reality, and once the facts of a situation have been accepted by the establishment—politicians and the press alike—it becomes virtually impossible to change people's minds about them. The book documents scores of examples of White House spin by topic rather than chronologically—for example, how different press secretaries managed the news in wartime, in foreign policy, in scandals, and in a host of domestic issues such as education and national disasters. Twenty-three press secretaries are included. The most notable among them are Steve Early (Roosevelt), James Hagerty (Eisenhower), Pierre Salinger (Kennedy), Bill Moyers (Johnson), Ron Ziegler (Nixon), Marlin Fitzwater (Reagan and G. H. W. Bush), Dee Dee Myers (Clinton), Mike McCurry (Clinton), Joe Lockhart (Clinton), Ari Fleischer (Bush), Scott McClellan (Bush), and Tony Snow (Bush).

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Great book by someone with experience...
I really enjoyed this book. The author has clearly done the research and work to create a very readable, accessible book. I especially enjoyed how the history and evolution of the press secretary's role itself was traced, all the way from Roosevelt to the end of the Bush administration.

And, as the other reviewer mentioned, the way the book was arranged, by challenges faced rather than simply chronologically really made the book even more interesting. It was good to see and hear the story from the other side things, so to speak.I did find myself a bit more sympathetic to what this very tough job entails, although I still found it difficult to stomach much of what the Bush administration presented as it's take. I've always felt they were the masters when it came to double-speak and spin.

Perhaps because they did their job so well and the press lost its way in those years, We the People lost in so many ways.I guess I was waiting for the author to get tougher on them. He never did, but this was still a book well worth the time.

Fantastic but for one thing
I am a political journalist, and I looked forward to this book with great anticipation around Christmastime.The great aspects of the book are several in number.First of all, for anyone who has followed American politics, many of the people in Woody Klein's book are known quantities.That is to say, everyone has seen Ronald Ziegler evading and lying through his teeth, Marlon Fitzwater yucking it up, Ari Fleischer being combative and, tragically, Jim Brady lying in a puddle of blood on a sidewalk.Mr Klein's book fleshes all of these people out beyond what we already know from having seen them on TV a million times, and that is wonderful.The second thing is that the author has chosen to divide the book up not by press secretary, offering a short biography of each, but by issue, examining the way in which press secretaries react to categories of occurrences such as domestic crises, the Cold War, global issues and presidential scandals.I consider that to be an excellent way to present the information.Third, the book contains quite a few excerpts from actual press conferences, and that provides a really stellar look at the give-and-take in the relationship between the White House press corps and the press secretary of the day -- combative in some instances, jovial in others.

The four, not five stars are due to something that absolutely drives me mad -- the apparent failure of anyone to proofread the damn thing!Once again fulsome praise is given in the acknowledgement section to lists of editors who apparently should all be sacked for incompetence.In just one paragraph of "All the President's Spokesmen" we find the sentence "Bill Moyers [..] has since become one of the nations most highly respected television commentators" and "... he said: 'Potomac Fever can produce a bloated sensation--particularly in the area of the ego--that causes press secretaries to take themselves much too seriously,' he said."There is a difference between "nations" and "nation's" even if they do sound the same, and two "he saids" in one sentence is simply one "he said" too many.That said, I would imagine that there are plenty of fans of politics and journalism who do not grind their teeth at the impending collapse of the English language.They, like I, will enjoy this book, only a bit more for keeping their teeth safe. ... Read more

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An unethical and undemocratic cult of business leadership seems to hold sway over the minds of President George W. Bush and many other leaders in our society. According to ethics and leadership expert James Hoopes, this cult claims that leadership is attained and exercised through morality. But by instilling false pride and moral egotism in executives, the leadership cult intensifies the tendency of power to corrupt. For the first time, Hail to the CEO pulls back the curtain on the cult of moral leadership, revealing its dangers while showing readers how to lead with greater integrity and competence. What's more, it will help all citizens better guard their freedom against corrupt, ruinous decisions and the leaders who make them.

The notion of leaders as moral exemplars began in business schools and is increasingly influential in the rest of society. Bush, a veteran of corporate life, is our first president to hold the degree Master of Business Administration. As a result of his business education and business experience, he has carried the leadership cult into the White House—with disastrous results. Many others have deplored Bush's incompetence and moral arrogance. Hail to the CEO is the first book to explain that his failures—from faith-based initiatives to the unconstitutional war on terror—reflect not just on him but on the business culture that created him. Moreover, Hail to the CEO challenges many of the assumptions underlying today's conventional wisdom on leadership. It will show leaders, for example, that it is morally dangerous to manage by values rather than manage for values. Hail to the CEO offers a new model of leadership in which moral influence is earned, not used, by managing as competently and justly as possible. More important, by reminding citizens of the democratic principle that leaders may be moral menaces as well as moral exemplars, Hail to the CEO will help protect freedom.

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Water-tight analysis
Makes the case, thoroughly and systematically.Who can argue with this book?

Why won't Pelosi and the Dems DO THIS, for god's sake??? Worse than shameful, it is traitorous to their solemn oaths to defend the Constitution. They should be impeached for not impeaching Bush/Cheney.

Kucinich, maybe Conyers, maybe Feingold are the only ones with any integrity, it seems.

How ridiculous!!!!
The whole premise behind this book is ridiculous. In order to impeach a president there has to be a crime, that's what "High Crimes and Misdeamors" means. Thinking that the war is icky is not a reason to impeach. Representative Holtzman has put a final cap on a less than stellar record. BTW, if Bush was lying about the WMD's, does that mean Clinton was lying when he said Iraq had WMD's?

Me thinks I detect flop sweat
"Justthefactsmaam" seems to have his undies in bunch.Gee...I wonder why?Could it be that his neocon wet dream is going down in flames?The shame of it is that that the delusions of those filling George's empty head have done such harm to our country.Like that cockroaches thatknowingly skitter across the floor when the exterminator enters the room, Just and his friends need to crawl back into that dark moist hole of theirs and await the inevitable fumigation.Breath deep, Just...it will be over before you know it.

Pabulum for Ideological Infants
This book is not so much a valid case for impeachment as it is a leftist, liberal propaganda piece that completely ignores `the rest of the story'. The reason that the Democrat controlled House and Senate is not pursuingimpeachment is because Democrat Strategists know that the process will only exonerate the president and they are better off leaving it as is, with so many gullible liberals actually believing the insipid nonsense continually cranked out by the leftist propaganda machine.

In the opening lines of the preface the authors make it clear that they have no intention of being honest when they say about the "wiretapping" of people on American soil making phone calls to known terrorists, "...the president declared that it was within his power to authorize the program, despite the law".

"Despite the law"?The authors failed to acknowledge the simple fact that there is a lot of grey area on this subject and according to some constitutional experts the president is breaking no law. ""I think there's a very powerful case that the president has independent authority" to order surveillance without a warrant, said Robert Turner, a University of Virginia professor who specializes in national security law."

The deceit continues with nearly an entire chapter on the Watergate break-in even though there is no valid comparison whatsoever to any actions by President Bush. There was more deception with the claim that Starr was recommending, "Congress undertake an impeachment inquiry - not into Whitewater - but into President Clinton's sexual involvement with a twenty something White House intern, and later government employee, Monica Lewinsky."(p.21)

Not quite, ladies, it had little to do with the sex itself and everything to do with `obstruction of justice' and `lying to the Grand Jury'. But your leftist liberal audience of ideological zombies will lap this stuff up. The truth counts for nothing with that bunch.

The nonsense continues on page 30 with the claim that, "The impeachable offense does not have to be a crime". Oh really? Says who? Oh, you debated this in a judiciary committee and came to this firm conclusion. Ipso facto, it's constitutional! Sorry...I am not buying it, and I doubt Congress would either.

The authors make an entire book out of discussing the following false claims pp. 34-35;

* "The president deceived Congress and thepeople in taking the country to war in Iraq"
While there may be plenty of dupes in congress the president did not deceive intelligent, aware, discerning people like me. Besides the fact that virtually every intelligence group in the world knew that Saddam had WMDs, and the fact that WMDs like SARIN and mustard gas were found, Saddam's Air Force General himself, General Georges Sada, tells the story of what happened to most of the chemical weapons. Also the case was at least three-fold as made before the UN by the US Secretary of State. The res 1441 violations alone were sufficient justification for the invasion.

* "The president directed an illegal domestic wiretapping program and other surveillance of Americans."
It has not been proven to be illegal. To claim that it was illegal is deceptive at best. You can say that your pal, Fred, thinks it is illegal. You cannot state outright that it is illegal without straining credulity.

*"The president permitted and condoned the use of torture or cruel treatment of detainees."
On p.126 the authors claim that, "Once allegations of torture and cruel and degrading treatment came to the president's attention, he failed to demand a complete and thorough investigation...." I don't think these authors have a reasonable perspective on this situation. Do you really think putting bags on people's heads and making them sit around naked with dogs barking at them is "torture"? Compared to what the Americans tortured at the Hanoi Hilton had to endure, do you really think that is "torture"? I don't think so.

* "The president showed reckless indifference to human life in the face of Hurricane Katrina and in equipping U.S. Soldiers and planning for the occupation of Iraq."
The authors show reckless indifference to logic and clarity of thought with this pointless blather. The mayor and governor were the first and foremost responsible parties for responding to the hurricane Katrina disaster and it was their incompetence that made that mess. After that it is FEMAs job to help out. It is NOT the job of the president of the entire country to get closely involved with natural disaster response and cleanup. The soldiers going into Iraq were the best equipped army in history and while the Iraq occupation has not gone perfectly it can hardly be called reckless.

*"The president tried to cover up his war deceptions with the leak of misleading classified information, an act that became entangled with the outing ofa CIA agent, a possible crime."
And publishing this sort of idiotic nonsense is a possible crime. Not only is the president allowed to release classified information, it is part of his job! The so called "entangling with the outing of a CIA agent" was mostly the work of yellow journalistic rags masquerading as `news'papers trying to pin it on Karl Rove when in reality it appears that it ultimately ended up being the work of a democrat columnist, Robert Novak.

Writing like "The Impeachment of GWB" is little more than pabulum for ideological infants. If your brain lacks the mental teeth required to intellectually masticate the truth, this book is for you.

An Honorable Solution
The authors have performed a valuable service for all United States citizens especially for all members of Congress who seem to fear the word, "impeachment", a word that should be considered the holiest word in the Constitution of the United States. The authors list in detail the high crimes and misdemeanors committed by President George H. Bush and Vice President Cheney. This is a solid guide book for the House of Reprentatives
that can save months of unnecessary research for a "smoking gun" and hopefully save thousands of lives in Iraq. ... Read more