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Bush by Jean Edward Smith is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Bush about?

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a "comprehensive and compelling" ( The New York Times ) account of the life and presidency of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himself—most disastrously in invading Iraq—and how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious faith. George W. Bush, the forty-third president of the United States, almost singlehandedly decided to invade Iraq. It was possibly the worst foreign-policy decision ever made by a president. The consequences dominated the Bush Administration and still haunt us today. In Bush , a "well-rounded portrait...necessary and valuable in this election year" ( The Christian Science Monitor ), Jean Edward Smith demonstrates that it was not Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, or Condoleezza Rice, but President Bush himself who took personal control of foreign policy. Bush drew on his deep religious conviction that important foreign-policy decisions were simply a matter of good versus evil. Domestically, he overreacted to 9/11 and endangered Americans' civil liberties. Smith explains that it wasn'

Who reads Bush?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Jean Edward Smith
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Published
2023
Language
EN
ISBN
9781476741192
Category
history
Subjects
Fiction, Political Science, Memoir
Rating
4.19 / 5 (459 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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