Being Poppy
A Portrait of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
6 May 2013
Summary
George Herbert Walker Bush is the oldest living former president of the United States, and the time has come to evaluate not just his political legacy, but to rediscover what made him a great man. He is the patriarch of America’s most powerful political dynasty–but before he became President, his character was formed on the baseball field, in the cockpit of a fighter jet, on the oil fields of Texas, in corporate boardrooms, in the halls of Congress and abroad as a diplomat, at the head of the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781476745411 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1476745412 |
| Author: | Richard Ben Cramer |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 6 May 2013 |
| Weight: | 345g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 140mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Richard Ben Cramer
Richard Ben Cramer (1950–2013) won the Pulitzer Prize for Middle East reporting in 1979. His journalism has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. He was the author of How Israel Lost: The Four Questions and the classic of modern American politics What It Takes: The Way to the White House.
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