Copyright © 2024 by Jean Becker

Foreword copyright © 2024 by James A. Baker, III

Epilogue copyright © 2024 by Dan Quayle

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Becker, Jean, approximately 1956- author. | Baker, James Addison, 1930- writer of foreword. | Quayle, Dan, 1947- writer of epilogue.

Title: Character matters : and other life lessons from George Herbert Walker Bush / Jean Becker.

Other titles: Life lessons from George Herbert Walker Bush

Description: First edition. | New York : Twelve, 2024.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023036567 | ISBN 9781538758571 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781538758595 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Bush, George, 1924-2018—Anecdotes. | Character. | Leadership—United States. | United States—Politics and government—1989—Anecdotes. | Bush, George, 1924-2018—Friends and associates. | Presidents—United States—Biography. | Conduct of life.

Classification: LCC E882.2 .B437 2024 | DDC 973.928092 [B]—dc23/eng/20230810

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023036567

ISBNs: 9781538758571 (hardcover), 9781538758595 (ebook)

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