Destiny and Power · The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by Meacham, Jon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Epigraph Contents Prologue. The Last Gentleman Part I ★ A Vanished Universe, Beginnings to 1942

One. The Land of the Self-Made Man Two. A Real Son of a Bitch Three. He Gets So Intense Over Everything Four. Not for Self Five. That’s Barbara Pierce

Part II ★ War and Marriage, 1942 to 1948

Six. Off I Zoomed Seven. I Wanted to Finish My Mission Eight. Life Lay Ahead of Us

Part III ★ Texas and Tragedy, 1948 to 1966

Nine. Who Had Ever Heard of Odessa, Texas? Ten. I Push It Away, Push It Back Eleven. I Was Bleeding Inside Twelve. Goldwater’s Policies, Kennedy’s Style

Part IV ★ The Wars of Washington, 1966 to 1977

Thirteen. Without a Moment to Stop Fourteen. A Turn on the World Stage Fifteen. This Job Is No Fun at All Sixteen. Am I Running Away from Something? Seventeen. George Bush, Super Spook

Part V ★ The Age of Reagan, 1977 to 1989

Eighteen. A President We Won’t Have to Train Nineteen. We Have Done the Unthinkable Twenty. It Hurt Like Hell Twenty-One. Is George Bush There? Twenty-Two. Well, What Do We Do Now? Twenty-Three. The Special Relationship Twenty-Four. The President Was Struck Twenty-Five. George Did It Twenty-Six. On the Eve of the Run Twenty-Seven. Like You’ve Been Hit in the Stomach Twenty-Eight. We Came Out of the Dead Twenty-Nine. I’m Stronger and Tougher

Part VI ★ The Awesome Responsibility, 1989 to 1993

Thirty. The Sun Started Through Thirty-One. If It Weren’t for the Deficit… Thirty-Two. Victory in Europe, Terror in China Thirty-Three. The Fall of the Wall Thirty-Four. I Want to Do the Most Good I Can Thirty-Five. A Nation Reunited and a New NATO Thirty-Six. I’ve Got to Do What I Think Is Right Thirty-Seven. This Will Not Stand Thirty-Eight. No Blood for Oil Thirty-Nine. Read My Hips Forty. The Threat of Impeachment Forty-One. Nothing Like It Since Truman Forty-Two. I’m Just Not Sure I Want to Run Again Forty-Three. A Coup in Moscow Forty-Four. It Was Discouraging as Hell Forty-Five. God, It Was Ghastly Forty-Six. The Closing of an Era

Part VII ★ In The Twilight, 1993 to 2016

Forty-Seven. I’d Like to See Old George Bush Forty-Eight. The Proudest Father in the Whole Wide World Forty-Nine. It Is Not Easy to Sit on the Sidelines Fifty. The Buck Stops There

Epilogue. I Don’t Want to Miss Anything Photo Insert Dedication Author’s Note Acknowledgments Map Notes Bibliography Permission Credits Illustration Credits By Jon Meacham About the Author

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