@article{319123,
      author = {Naftali, Timothy J.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/319123},
      title = {George H.W. Bush /},
      publisher = {Times Books,},
      abstract = {George Bush was a throwback to a different era. A  patrician figure not known for eloquence, Bush dismissed  ideology as "the vision thing." Yet, as biographer Naftali  argues, no one was better prepared for the challenges  facing the United States as the Cold War ended. Bush wisely  encouraged the liberalization of the Soviet system and  skillfully orchestrated the reunification of Germany.  Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, he united the  global community to defeat Saddam Hussein. At home, Bush  reasserted fiscal discipline after the excesses of the  Reagan years. Ultimately, his political awkwardness cost  Bush a second term: his toughest decisions widened  fractures in the Republican Party, and Bush lost his bid  for reelection in 1992. In a final irony, the conservatives  who scorned him would return to power eight years later,  under his son and namesake, with the result that the elder  George Bush would see his reputation soar.--From publisher  description.},
      recid = {319123},
      pages = {xviii, 202 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2007},
}