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Reviewed on June 1, 2016 | Social Sciences
Pulitzer Prize finalist Smith (Eisenhower in War and Peace) treads boldly into an assessment of the ambitious and controversial presidency of George W. Bush (b. 1946) with this highly interpretive study. The author contends that Bush, rather than advisors Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, set his own course in international relations guided by a religious, binary view of the world. Smith himself does not offer differing, alternative assessments of the presidency that spanned 2...Log In or Sign Up to Read More