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The call to serve : the life of an American president, George Herbert Walker Bush

The call to serve : the life of an American president, George Herbert Walker Bush

Meacham, Jon, author.
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"The Call to Serve is an intimate, illuminating portrait of the forty-first president, a man who was so much more than just his politics. In words and images--many found in a lifetime of scrapbooks kept by Barbara Pierce Bush--Jon Meacham brings George H. W. Bush vividly to life. From the values of integrity, empathy, and grace that Bush learned in childhood to his leadership at the highest levels in tumultuous times, the forty-first president em...

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Bush, George, 1924-2018
Presidents United States Biography
United States Politics and government 1945-1989
United States Politics and government 1989-
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ISBN:
9780593729458
Edition:
First edition
Description:
xxiv, 358 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Portions of this work were originally published in different form in Destiny and power by Jon Meacham in 2015
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-346) and index
Contents:
Farewell to a statemen
A beautiful world to grow up in : beginnings to 1942
A young man at war : 1942 to 1945
Gone west : 1948 to 1962
Into the arena : 1962 to 1977
At Reagan's side : 1980 to 1988
The biggest job in the world : 1989 to 1993
Twilight : 1993 to 2018
LCCN:
2023038143
Control Number:
3335718
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