American Presidents: George W. Bush (Hardcover)

from dyarington

This book is really unnecessary. It's too soon to make any kind of honest assessment of Bush's presidency and the man himself has already done his best to review his own past. The book starts out on a negative--the life of a spoiled rich kid.. The rest of the book is summarized in the Epilogue wh...

from amramey

James Mann. George W. Bush. American Presidents Series. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2015. 174 pp. $25.00. James Mann has worked as a newspaper reporter with the Washington Post and as a columnist with the Los Angeles Times. Mann is author-in-residence at John Hopkins University. His most re...

from corgiiman

I collect this series. I was a little disappointed in this one though for emphasizing the bad and scanning over the good things that happened. I would have liked to see a more balanced approach but it may be too close to his administration.

from Craigeri

I received this book from Library Thing Early Reviewers. This book covers eight years of a Presidency of the the United States of America in around 170 pages. Come on. Glad I didn't have to buy the book. Even if the author left out his personal views this is still not a very good book.

from David_Norman

In the Editor's Note, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., writes that that intent of the American Presidents series is to "present the grand panorama of our chief executives in volumes compact enough for the busy reader, lucid enough for the student, authoritative enough for the scholar" (xviii). Mann's ...