Bibliograph

Destiny and power, the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Jon Meacham

Type

Label

Destiny and power, the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Jon Meacham

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Destiny and power

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

907446893

Responsibility statement

Jon Meacham

Sub title

the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Summary

Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush<U+2019>s diaries and to his family, Destiny and Power paints 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

Table Of Contents

Part I. A vanished universe, Beginnings to 1942 -- Part II. War and marriage, 1942 to 1948 -- Part III. Texas and tragedy, 1948 to 1966 -- Part IV. The wars of Washington, 1966 to 1977 -- Part V. The age of Reagan, 1977 to 1989 -- Part VI. The awesome responsibility, 1989 to 1993 -- Part VII. In the twilight, 1993 to 2016

Target audience

adult

Classification

Creator