Decision Points

✍ Scribed by Bush, George W

• Book ID: 108168784
• Publisher: Crown Publishers
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 6 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307590626

✦ Synopsis

President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of Americas 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.

In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governors Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after Americas most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq; and behind the Oval Office desk for his historic and controversial decisions on the financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, Iran, and other issues that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century.

President Bush writes honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments reforming education, treating HIV/AIDS in Africa, and safeguarding the country amid chilling warnings of additional terrorist attacks. He also offers intimate new details on his decision to quit drinking, discovery of faith, and relationship with his family.

A groundbreaking new brand of memoir, Decision Points will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on one of the most consequential eras in American history and the man at the center of events.

From Booklist

George W. Bushs decisions were all correct. It was just the aftermath that sometimes became muddled. That, at least, is the impression one gets after reading this surprisingly robust memoir. For those who have missed 43 in the public eye (and for those who havent as well), his voice is evident on every page. Cocky, defiant, and, at times (especially when speaking about his family), emotional, this is the George Bush who insists that everybody believed there were weapons of mass destruction, that much of the blame for the post-Katrina fiasco should be put on Louisianas local governments, and that Harriet Miers would have made a fine Supreme Court justice, given the chance. He does admit some mistakes (Mission Accomplished), but he stands by his big decisions and backs up his claims, which is simpler to do when the other side isnt chiming in with their opinions and/or facts. Those who have followed Bush and his presidency will find many of the personal stories here familiar (how he stopped drinking; his whirlwind romance with Laura), but there are some fascinating reveals as well, including his affection for Ted Kennedy, his sometimes-complicated relationship with Dick Cheney, and his read-between-the-lines digs at Colin Powell. Some political memoirs (hello, Bill Clinton) are bloated journeys that devolve into pages and pages of, and then I met . . . Bush, smartly dividing the book into themes rather than telling the story chronologically, offers readers a genuine (and highly readable) look at his thought processes as he made huge decisions that will affect the nation and the world for decades. Many will ridicule his thinking and bemoan those decisions, but being George Bush, he wont really care. --Ilene Cooper

About the Author

George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States.