Has Anyone Read the New George W. Bush Biography?

[lavender]

If so, what did you think? I'm contemplating this book for some light reading this semester. I'd like to have some thoughts before purchasing. I've read a few online reviews but would like to hear from some people who I've been able to see post on politics before I go pay the money to snag this book that I would be embarrassed to have on my shelves.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I don't generally like biographies. Though, I will be reading this partial autobiography, partial narcissitic exercise, and partial scientific paper sometime in the near future.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...103-9825898-9894222?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

 

[70/30]

Which one? "Bush At War" or "The Right Man"

I'd vote for neither---I've seen Frum on 25 interviews this week---pretty obvious stuff. http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/shapiro/2003-01-07-hype_x.htm

Maybe Check out "Saddam: King of Terror" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...2-6265134-8610419?v=glance&s=books&vi=reviews

Might not fit into our mutual agendas but it is much more interesting.

My vote is: spend the money on a new dildo and instead read this link evaluating DICK Cheney http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0301.marshall.html

 

[deliciously_naughty]

What is there really to say on bush at this point? I would wait until after he's out of office and someone writes a reflective bio on him.

in the meantime, there's a great bio on the ww2 years of fdr and eleanor roosevelt called no ordinary time...I thought it was excellent. She weaves everyday life and anecdotes into the story of the war and the wartime whitehouse

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...f=sr_1_6/104-6129069-7053526?v=glance&s=books

 

[celiaKitten]

He already has one out?!? He isn't even out of office yet.

How fucking pathetic can this cowboy get?

 

[ozraven]

It would be a short read you think.......

Sort of a cross between a Golden Book and Dr Suess, but without the humour or the fairytale ending?

 

[deliciously_naughty]

It would be a short read you think.......

Sort of a cross between a Golden Book and Dr Suess, but without the humour or the fairytale ending?

snicker

applause applause

 

[Weird Harold]

I'd like to have some thoughts before purchasing.

Check it out from the library and then if it meets your standards for purchase, you'll know.

 

[modest mouse]

He already has one out?!? He isn't even out of office yet.

How fucking pathetic can this cowboy get?

Hey dipshit, its not an autobiography.

 

[metal_minx]

"Curious George Wants to Rule the World" you mean that one?

 

[Guest]

No. I didn't even read your post!

 

[Guest]

Why would we read that when we can read porn and masturbate?

 

[70/30]

I have developed a distaste for Thomas Jefferson---partly because I'm a Burr-ite. However, I'm giving him another shot with American Sphinx by Joseph Ellis, it will serve as my lite reading book of the month.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=27#reader-link

There are plenty of worthy figures to read about---they are also completed by entertaining and qualified authors.

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=43#reader-link

However, Me being a Burr-ite causes this to be my favorite easy policy/historical reader---

Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: a Study in Character by Roger Kennedy.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=8#reader-link

 

[Texan]

"The Righ Man" by David Frum is pretty good. It's not literature, but it's reasonably well written. Frum is a pretty big fan of Bush, so it definately has that perspective. However, David Frum worked in the White House and knows the people he writes about pretty well.

I have a few minor disagreements with Frum's opinions of Bush, but overall, I think he's pretty accurate.

lavender, you won't "enjoy" the content a whole lot, but if you read with an open mind, you might develop a little different perspective concerning Bush and the role he plays right now.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

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lavender, you won't "enjoy" the content a whole lot, but if you read with an open mind, you might develop a little different perspective concerning Bush and the role he plays right now.

the role he plays right now?

head trained monkey for the oil corporations?
world most ill-informed political strategist
Worst public speaker to ever address the nation
Bush lite?
the late 80's take 2? Bush administration 2.0?

Please...if I wanted to read something that kisses that cokehead's ass, I'd just read your posts.

 

[70/30]

I bought "The Tocqueville Reader" recently it includes his travel notes, conversations, and letters. Being from Texas I like his conversation with Sam Houston in 1831:

...AT: Do you think that the Indians have great natural intelligence?

SH: Yes. I do not think they yield to any other race of men on that account. Besides, I am equally of the opinion that it is the same in the case of the Negroes. The difference one notices between the Indian and the Negro seem to me to result solely from the different education they have received. The Indian is born free; he makes use of this freedom from his first steps in life. He is left to look after himself as soon as he can act; even a father's power is an imperceptible bond for him. Surrounded by dangers, pressed by necessities, and unable to count on anyone, thus his mind must be ever active to find means to ward off such troubles and to maintain his existence. This necessity imposed on the Indian gives his intelligence a degree of development and ingenuity which are often wonderful. The ordinary Negro has been a slave before he was born. Without pleasures as without needs, and useless to himself, the first notions of existence which he receives, make him understand that he is the property of another, that care for his own future is no concern of his, and that the very power of thought is for him a useless gift of providence...

AT: Do you believe in the possibility of saving the Indians?

SH: Yes, surely. 25 years of skillful handling by the government would certainly bring this result about. Several tribes of the south are already half-civilised....The head of all (civilising tribes) come the Cherokees. The Cherokees live entirely by cultivating the soil. They are the only Indian tribe that has a written language.

Seven years later---The Cherokee Trail of Tears http://www.cherokee.org/Culture/HistoryPage.asp?ID=2
way to go Andy Jackson---GWB and Frist's primary political hero.

Hoping to get to James Bryce's American Commonwealth soon.

 

[Problem Child]

the role he plays right now?

head trained monkey for the oil corporations?
world most ill-informed political strategist
Worst public speaker to ever address the nation
Bush lite?
the late 80's take 2? Bush administration 2.0?

Please...if I wanted to read something that kisses that cokehead's ass, I'd just read your posts.

Wow, tell us how you really feel.

 

[Mischka]

Hey dipshit, its not an autobiography.

She's not a dipshit, you fucknuzzle.

Lav, go to Half Price. I think I saw a stack of them for a buck.

 

[Problem Child]

...fucknuzzle.

Right on.

 

[modest mouse]

She's not a dipshit, you fucknuzzle.

Celiakitten's post was dipshitesque.

Fucknuzzle isnt an insult but rather another example of Mishcka wanting some mouse love. Tsk Tsk.

 

[70/30]

With Sam Houston in charge maybe the Texas Revolution wasn't all about slavery. A line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory is a good read

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...?v=glance&s=books&vi=reader&img=2#reader-link

Then again Sam and Throckmorton were about the only unionists around by 1859.

 

[Lost Cause]

Godamnit don't read it then!

Fucking whiney, no reading people, out there that are so fucking poisoned by their bias, they couldn't tell a child a bedtime story without spewing some twisted interpretation of it that would eventually blame a conservative, or America. Jeebus! Just read your Worker's World Daily, and quit being so fucking ignorant!

*Going to check blood pressure now.........

 

[miles]

the role he plays right now?

head trained monkey for the oil corporations?
world most ill-informed political strategist
Worst public speaker to ever address the nation
Bush lite?
the late 80's take 2? Bush administration 2.0?

Please...if I wanted to read something that kisses that cokehead's ass, I'd just read your posts.

Are you friend$ with Donkey?

 

[70/30]

I found out today that I have Creek Indian blood. I'll read even more into Native American affairs now. Here's a start---
http://ngeorgia.com/people/worcester.html

Frist and GWB claim Andrew Jackson as their favorite historical figure. I see the likeness.

 

[SINthysist]

MEANWHILE...

We're still waiting for the Clnton's to write their books...

IF, they ever will!