(Presidents George Herbert Walker Bush, George W. Bush, and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush)
With the rollout of Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Jon Meacham’s new book DESTINY AND POWER: THE AMERICAN ODYSSEY OF GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH what emerged in the media was the elder Bush’s criticisms of Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney’s poor service in the administration of his son. Many pundits have questioned the senior Bush’s judgement since another son, Jeb is in the midst of his own presidential campaign. Whatever motivated the senior Bush it has created a great deal of buzz around Meacham’s latest biography. After successful histories of Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and the relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Meacham’s latest effort is not quite on the level of his previous work. In Meacham’s defense it is difficult to write a critical biography of a subject that is still alive, and as…
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