George H. W. Bush
Naftali, Timothy
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier (EDT)
Wilentz, Sean (EDT)
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BOOK SUMMARY
George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for his eloquence, Bush readily dismissed ideology as the vision thing. Yet, as Timothy Naftali argues, there was no person of his generation better prepared for the challenges f
BOOK SYNOPSIS
George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for his eloquence, Bush readily dismissed ideology as the vision thing. Yet, as Timothy Naftali argues, there was no person of his generation better prepared for the challenges facing the United States as the Cold War ended. Bush wisely shepherded Soviet reformers through the liberalization of their system and skillfully orchestrated the reunification of Germany. And following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, he united the global community to defeat Saddam Hussein. At home, Bush reasserted the principle of fiscal discipline after the excesses of the Reagan years.
It was ultimately his political awkwardness that cost George Bush a second term. His toughest decisions widened fractures in the Republican Party, and with his party divided, Bush lost his bid for reelection in 1992. In a final irony, the conservatives who scorned him would return to power eight years later, under his son and namesake, with the result that the elder George Bush would see his reputation soar.
AUTHOR BIO
Timothy Naftali is the director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, having previously served as director of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia. He is the coauthor of Khrushchevs Cold War and One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Kennedy, Castro, and the Cuban Missile Crisis 1958-1964, and the author of Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism. He lives in Los Angeles.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1427202206
ISBN(13-digit): 9781427202208
Dewey Decimal: 973.928092
Library of Congress: bl2007026090
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
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