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Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

by Jon Meacham
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From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Timesbestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping yet intimate biography of George H. W. Bush. Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush's diaries and to his family, Destiny and Powerpaints a vivid and affecting portrait of the distinctive American life of a man from the Greatest Generation: his childhood in Connecticut, his heroic service in World War II, his entry into the Texas oil business, and his storied rise in politics from congressman to U.N. ambassador to head of the CIA to forty-first president of the United States.

Book Details

ISBN13 9781400067657
ISBN10 1400067650
Series/Work OL17311144W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Random House
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State Bush, george, 1924-2018 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Large type books New York Times bestseller New York Times reviewed nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2015-11-29 Politics and government Presidents United states, politics and government, 1945-1989 United states, politics and government, 1989-

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