George Herbert Walker Bush

Name: George Herbert Walker Bush
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Tom Wicker
ISBN: 9781415912829

Author: Tom Wicker

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 04/02/2004

Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, American Government, History, Us History, Modern History, Biography & Autobiography, Political Biography

Synopsis

No one is more qualified to give a fully rounded, objective portrait of our forty-first president than Tom Wicker. A political correspondent for The New York Times for more than thirty years, Wicker was a first-hand witness to and reporter of George H. W. Bush’s political rise and presidential reign. In George Herbert Walker Bush, Wicker provides a richly drawn and succinct overview of Bush from his New England roots, his decorated service in World War II, and his successful oil businesses to his shift in politics and rapid rise within the Republican party. As he describes changes within the Republican party in recent decades, Wicker charts Bush’s career, including in-depth analysis of his campaign tactics and his gift for creating friendships and inspiring loyalty which, Wicker argues, has been the key to Bush’s success. The result is a fascinating, timely glimpse into one of the most powerful families in America today, complete with insights into the reign of George W. Bush, the continued legacy of the Bush family, and contemporary American politics.

About The Author

Tom Wicker covered American politics at The New York Times from 1960 to the early 1990s, when he succeeded Arthur Krock as writer of the “In the Nation” column. He is the author of several books of nonfiction, including One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream and JFK and LBJ, as well as several novels.Michael Prichard has played several thousand characters during his career. While he has been seen performing over a hundred of them in theater and film, SmartMoney magazine named him one of the Top Ten Golden Voices.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric

This short biography, by the journalist and novelist Tom Wicker, moves forward relentlessly, a real page-turner - at least for me. The book starts with the young Bush moving to Texas to start an oil company. He succeeds quickly and moves into politics as a Republican in the solid Democratic Texas. He......more

Goodreads review by Peter

The Penguin Lives series is/was a series of short biographies published about famous people written by respected authors. The late American-born political journalist Tom Wicker’s short biography of George Herbert Walker Bush fits the mission of The Penguin Lives series well. The biography was publis......more

Goodreads review by Jay

I gave this book a two-star rating because it is exactly what the description of that rating says. "It was OK." At only 219 pages, it was much more manageable than most presidential biographies that are often 700 or 800 pages long. And I did learn a bit which is what I'm looking for in a book like t......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

A quick read, without much depth than what you might get from newsmagazine accounts of this President's life...I was really surprised when Penguin put this one out, as I figured there were much more compelling subjects (and writers) for James Atlas to choose from... Not terrible, but it doesn't add m......more

Goodreads review by Tom

This was the wrong guy to write a short history of Bush 41. Too many opinions and not enough straight up biography. You could just as well get Rush Limbaugh to write Penguin's biography of Bill Clinton.......more