Bush country: how Dubya became a great president while driving the liberals insane
Author:
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press,
Pub. Date:
2004.
Edition:
1st ed.
Language:
English
Description
In this rousing, persuasive, and hugely entertaining book, John Podhoretz says that George W. Bush has earned a place in the pantheon of great American chief executives---and shows in one amazing detail after another how Bush's success has driven some of his critics into a pathological frenzy. Podhoretz is the first to acknowledge that the odds were stacked against Dubya, the inexperienced Texas governor who took up residence in the White House lacking an electoral majority, dogged by widely publicized verbal mishaps, and widely viewed by the American elite as a lightweight. But to the delight of his friends and the teeth-gnashing frustration of liberals, George W. Bush has proven himself an immensely effective president. Throughout his three years in the White House, as Podhoretz explains, Dubya has outsmarted, out-maneuvered, out-articulated, and outshone adversaries and critics. Steeled by the tragedy of September 11, the new president took a nation more obsessed with reality television than with the reality of international terrorism and girded it for the long struggle that lay ahead. He has presided over two major military campaigns to stunning success, initiated tax cuts whose dimensions have awed critics and fans alike, and brought his party into the twenty-first century. He has been resourceful, disciplined, and independent-minded---so much so that he was able to reject his own father's governing style as president to find his own voice and his own place in history. Bush hasn't hoarded his political capital, but has used it in bold and unexpected ways. Instead of bowing to conventional wisdom and carving out a centrist position, he has remained true to his ideological roots. Instead of deferring to established Beltway thinking, he has done what he thinks is best for America and the world. As Bush has grown more presidential, the criticisms of him have grown more intense---and, in Podhoretz's view, crazier and crazier. In a series of short chapters, Podhoretz takes a rhetorical scalpel to eight of the wildest caricatures of Bush and leaves them in hilarious shreds. In a season of broadsides being fired from both sides of the aisle, here is a book that distinguishes itself by the force of its arguments and the ringing clarity of its thought. Impassioned, insightful, and convincing, "Bush Country" is an analysis of a presidency gone right and a celebration of a 0man who has already earned his place in history.
Subjects
Subjects
Bush, George W
Bush, George W. -- (George Walker), -- 1946-
Case studies
Foreign relations
MMM Foundation -- Bud Werner Memorial Library
Political leadership
Political leadership -- United States -- Case studies
Politics and government
United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009
Bush, George W. -- (George Walker), -- 1946-
Case studies
Foreign relations
MMM Foundation -- Bud Werner Memorial Library
Political leadership
Political leadership -- United States -- Case studies
Politics and government
United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009
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ISBN:
9780312324728
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