Suchergebnisse

"A good-time guy" -- The rising politician -- The new president and his tax cuts -- September 11 -- Iraq -- Reelection and its unhappy aftermath -- Second-term changes -- "I'm going to be Roosevelt, not Hoover

Bush's ambitious second-term agenda hits reality / Dan Balz -- George W. Bush : the man and his leadership / Fred I. Greenstein -- Bush foreign policy : first-term choices, second-term consequences / David E. Sanger -- Bush foreign policy : grand vision and its application / Carla Anne Robbins -- Governing executively : Bush's paradoxical style / Charles O. Jones

In this press-wary administration, journalist Draper has accomplished a small miracle: He has knocked on all the right doors, and thus become the first author to tell a personality-driven history of the Bush years. With access to all the key figures of this administration and perhaps 200 other players, Draper delivers an intimate portrait of a tumultuous decade and a beleaguered administration, with a special emphasis on how the very personality of this strong-willed president has affected the outcome of events. Though the headlines may be familiar, the details, the utterly inside account of how events transpired will come as fresh reportage to even the most devoted followers of mainstream media coverage. Draper allows us to witness in complete granularity the personal force of a president determined to achieve big things, who confronted the history of his time with what can surely be described as dead certainty.--From publisher description

Introduction: controversial policy and uncertain future, 2001-2009 -- The challenge to America and the world -- The neoconservative revolution: the ideological infrastructure of the Bush Doctrine -- The personality of George W. Bush -- The decision-making process: past and future -- Lessons for future presidents: America and the world beyond neoconservatism