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George Bush: The Life of a Lone Star Yankee (Hardcover)

by Herbert S. Parmet (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD (1 Nov 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 068419452X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0684194523
  • Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 16.3 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 837,337 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Traces the life of the former president from his aristocratic upbringing and heroic World War II service to his ascendancy to the White House.


From the Author

This is the first full biography of George Bush.
This book was prepared with help from the best of both worlds: access to Bush, his closest associates, and documents, including his personal diaries, and complete freedom to use and shape the material according to my best judgment as a biographer and historian. The result, I believe, is an entirely human account, the most comprehensive that will be available for some time to come and one that will remain the standard for the foreseeable future of an American leader who was far more important than is generally assumed. The book also tells us much about this country's political course over the last three decades. It is both a personal and political biography.

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3.0 out of 5 stars An Uncritical Look at an Unimpressive Presidency, 21 Dec 1997
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The biographer was a distinguished scholar at the Conference on the Bush Presidency at Hofstra University in April 1997. Although this book was essentially finished by the time of the Conference, there is at least one footnote (Steven Burgess) referring to a paper presented at Hofstra. This reviewer suggested that Parmet look at the critical books by Jack Matlock on Bush's foreign policy and Monica Crowley's book on Nixon's devastating appraisal of Bush, but there is no evidence that this occurred. P More importantly, Parmet is weak when it comes to explaining the Bush stagnation. Despite the Persian Gulf War, there ensued the slowest four-year growth period in the postwar years. Thus, it is more appropriate to refer to the Bush stagnation rather than the Bush recession. P Whereas it is possible to describe Reagan's supply-side economics as a version of "commercial Keynesianism," there would seem to be no Keynesian bones in George Bush. Bush raised taxes in 1990, in collaboration with Tom Foley, as the economy headed downward. Later he refused to sign a reasonable tax cut coming out of Congress in March 1992. Instead he relied primarily on a change in withholding of income taxes which produced a brief upturn in the fourth quarter followed by sluggish growth in early 1993 when the tax rebates were smaller due to the previous tax cuts in 1992. P Readers interested in a critique of Bush's economic policy may want to read the contribution of Timothy Canova after the publication of the proceedings by Greenwood. 92. P
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