![]() ![]() Far from shedding light on how the president approached the crucial “decision points” of his presidency, the clip jobs illuminate something shallower and less surprising about Bush’s character: He’s too lazy to write his own memoir.īush, on his book tour, makes much of the fact that he largely wrote the book himself, guffawing that critics who suspected he didn’t know how to read are now getting a comeuppance. He took equal license in lifting from nonfiction books about his presidency or newspaper or magazine articles from the time. But the book, at least, promises “gripping, never-before-heard detail” about the former president’s key decisions, offering to bring readers “aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America’s 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 other undisclosed and weighty locations.Ĭrown also got a mash-up of worn-out anecdotes from previously published memoirs written by his subordinates, from which Bush lifts quotes word for word, passing them off as his own recollections. ![]() Bush for his memoirs, the publisher knew it wasn’t getting Faulkner. When Crown Publishing inked a deal with George W. ![]()
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