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000319123 1001_ $$aNaftali, Timothy J.
000319123 24510 $$aGeorge H.W. Bush /$$cTimothy Naftali.
000319123 250__ $$a1st ed.
000319123 260__ $$aNew York :$$bTimes Books,$$c2007.
000319123 300__ $$axviii, 202 p. ;$$c22 cm.
000319123 4901_ $$aThe American presidents series
000319123 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-185) and index.
000319123 5050_ $$aPoppy -- The understudy -- Cleaning up Reagan's mess -- Unexpected greatness -- Commander in chief -- The collapse -- Paterfamilias.
000319123 520__ $$aGeorge Bush was a throwback to a different era. A patrician figure not known for eloquence, Bush dismissed ideology as "the vision thing." Yet, as biographer Naftali argues, no one was better prepared for the challenges facing the United States as the Cold War ended. Bush wisely encouraged the liberalization of the Soviet system and skillfully orchestrated the reunification of Germany. Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, he united the global community to defeat Saddam Hussein. At home, Bush reasserted fiscal discipline after the excesses of the Reagan years. Ultimately, his political awkwardness cost Bush a second term: his toughest decisions widened fractures in the Republican Party, and Bush lost his bid for reelection in 1992. In a final irony, the conservatives who scorned him would return to power eight years later, under his son and namesake, with the result that the elder George Bush would see his reputation soar.--From publisher description.
000319123 60010 $$aBush, George,$$d1924-2018.
000319123 650_0 $$aPresidents$$zUnited States$$vBiography.
000319123 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xPolitics and government$$y1989-1993.
000319123 830_0 $$aAmerican presidents series (Times Books (Firm))
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