Full name: Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Author: Jon Meacham Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780812979473 0812979478

From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping yet intimate biography of George H. W. Bush. Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush's diaries and to his family, Destiny and Power paints a vivid and affecting portrait of the distinctive American life of a man from the Greatest Generation: his childhood in Connecticut, his heroic service in World War II, his entry into the Texas oil business, and his storied rise in politics from congressman to U.N. ambassador to head of the CIA to forty-first president of the United States. Similar books: American Lion by Jon Meacham Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham The Soul of America by Jon Meacham George Herbert Walker Bush by Tom Wicker Clarence Darrow by John A. Farrell Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper Jr. John Adams by John Ferling Thomas Jefferson by Willard Sterne Randall JFK: Reckless Youth by Nigel Hamilton John Quincy Adams by Paul C. Nagel Andrew Jackson by H. W. Brands The Unexpected President by Scott S. Greenberger Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume One by Blanche Wiesen Cook The Roosevelts by Peter Collier The Viceroy's Daughters by Anne de Courcy President McKinley by Robert W. Merry Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 2: 1933-1938 by Blanche Wiesen Cook Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne