W: Revenge of the Bush Dynasty

Synopsis

In retrospect, it makes perfect sense that George W. Bush - the eldest son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush - would be heir apparent to the Republican presidential nomination, if not to the presidency itself.

In this highly readable, superbly reported first book by journalist Elizabeth Mitchell, the author makes the case that George W. learned well from watching his father, that from the beginning he had personal characteristics - including an easy and convivial way with people - that his father did not have in the same measure, and that, perhaps most importantly, in George W.'s quest to become president, he is fueled not only by his own ambition and grooming, but also by his desire to avenge his father's painful loss to Bill Clinton in 1992.