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	Fritz Agency Christian Dittus
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English

BUSH

Jean Edward Smith

Distinguished presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith offers a critical yet fair biography of George W. Bush, showing how he ignored his advisors to make key decisions himselfmost disastrously in invading Iraqand how these decisions were often driven by the President's deep religious faith.

George W. Bush, the forty-third president of the United States, almost singlehandedly decided to invade Iraq. It was possibly the worst foreign-policy decision ever made by a president. The consequences dominated the Bush Administration and still haunt us today.

Jean Edward Smith was a member of the faculty at the University of Toronto for thirty-five years, and at Marshall University for twelve. He has also been a visiting scholar at Columbia, Princeton, and Georgetown.

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Book Published 2016-07-01 by Simon & Schuster

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...despite his unremittingly negative assessment, Smith is neither a partisan nor a polemicist; he's a historian and his conclusions carry weight. When, toward the end of Bush, he allows that his subject may not have been America's worst president, the act of charity stings far worse than his cruelest barbs. It also strikes an ironic note, since, given the state of the 2016 campaign, it's now depressingly easy to imagine a president worse than George W. Bush. Read more...