George H. W. Bush Character at the Core / Curt Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Curt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

United States--Politics and government--1989-1993.

United States.

Bush, George, 1924-.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

George H. W. Bush ranks among America's most distinguished men of the twentieth century. A war hero, businessman, politician, and the forty-first president of the United States, Bush has spent most of his life dedicated to public service. Curt Smith worked with Bush for more than twenty years, including during his presidency, when Smith wrote more speeches for Bush than anyone else. Smith's exploration of Bush's service includes in-depth narratives on the invasion of Panama, the first Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain. He also chro

Contents:

Beginnings

Finding the water fine

Perfectly clear

Looking for Mr. Right

Big jawn

A phone call from the Gipper

To the brink-and back

The immaculate election

Hopeful at the creation

Bush at the summit

Into the abyss

A morning after

America's "vision thing"

Poetry of the heart.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-311) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61234-686-3

OCLC:

896838801