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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931
EAN: 9781586485566
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1586485563
Label: PublicAffairs
Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: May 28, 2008
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date: May 28, 2008
Studio: PublicAffairs
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With unprecedented candor, one of George W. Bush's closest aides takes readers behind the scenes of the Bush presidency, and what exactly happened to take it off course.
Scott McClellan was one of a few Bush loyalists from Texas who became part of his inner circle of trusted advisers, and remained so during one of the most challenging and contentious periods of recent history. Drawn to Bush by his commitment to compassionate conservatism and strong bipartisan leadership, McClellan served the president for more than seven years, and witnessed day-to-day exactly how the presidency veered off course.
In this refreshingly clear-eyed book, written with no agenda other than to record his experiences and insights for the benefit of history, McClellan provides unique perspective on what happened and why it happened the way it did, including the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina, Washington's bitter partisanship, and two hotly-contested presidential campaigns. He gives readers a candid look into who George W. Bush is and what he believes, and into the personalities, strengths, and liabilities of his top aides. Finally, McClellan looks to the future, exploring the lessons this presidency offers the American people as we prepare to elect a new leader.
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George W Bush is by far the best president the United States has ever had. Yes, he even tops the accomplishments that his dad achieved in the few years he served. I love what Bush has done for the people of the USA, Iraq, and the world. Bush has helped the world out in so many ways. People are ungrateful to Bush's kindness and generosity.
Some reasons why President Bush is the best:
a. Our Economy is in the best shape its ever been!
b. Lower gas prices than we had 8 years ago
c. better health care system
d. more jobs/less unemployment
e. stabilizing peace in the Middle East
Twenty years from now he'll be hailed as one of the greatest presidents in history for sparking freedom in the middle east.
Thank you Bush!.
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I am pretty negative on the Bush administration, so I was interested to read an insider's perspective. "What Happened" was quite disappointing, however. While the book is billed as a look inside the Bush White House, it's really just an account of Scott's realization that Washington is a dirty place filled with people who play a dirty game. While that's true, it's hardly a red-line, front-page revelation worth spending a couple hundred pages developing.
It's also not particularly revelatory: you can tell that Scott wasn't really an insider, since little he speaks of hasn't been known publicly for a long, long time.
Finally, because Scott is really making only 2 or 3 main points (Washington is dirty; politics is often a zero-sum game; truth yields to selling an opinion), the book is VERY repetitive. Plain, uninteresting language doesn't make it any more enjoyable to read.
I commend his book inasmuch as it relieves his conscience, but I wouldn't ever ... Read More
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Scott McClellan spends the first 100 pages of this 200 odd page book telling us about childhood, his powerful mom and his early political education. He assumes that he is an important enough historical figure that we really care know about his collegiate tennis career, etc, etc. These revelations are not why I read this book and I doubt it is why many others have chosen to either. He spends the next 100 pages saying virtually nothing that we don't already know if we have been following the news for the last eight years. From his key insider postion in a rermarkable White House in extraordinarilly remarkable times, Mr. McClellan has produced an totally unremarkable book. Upon completing it I could only recall one phrase that describes my overall level of dissatisfaction with Mr. McClellan's effort, "where's the beef". Sadly it is not in this book.
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This book is more about Scott McClellan than George Bush. It is not a tell-all book, almost everything in this book was in the news and the wrong facts are told about. This book suffers from a great lack of brevity.
For example when Bush hired him he tells how they ate a sandwich and talked for 20 minutes without saying what they talked about. I would rather know what was said; I don't care about them eating a sandwich. On 9-11 it is mostly about him and how he had to ride back from Florida in car with 4 people who shared driving to get back sooner. What Bush did after leaving that classroom is not discussed.
I did not actually read the second half of this book.
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I got interested in this book when I saw Scott McClellan on "Meet the Press" one morning. It was either Tim Russert's last or next-to-last show before he died suddenly.
I didn't know what to expect from Mr. McClellan, so I watched. I was amazed to see a guy that seemed to be expressing genuine regret to the American people for letting them down. It wasn't exactly his fault, but he does seem to blame himself to some degree. Anyway, I was intrigued by his sincerity--and not only that, but his apparent forthrightness and honesty.
So when I saw the book at the library, I picked it up, and got very interested after just a few pages--you know, the way you do when you read a thriller-type novel. I enjoyed the book for the following reasons:
-It's well written. Good writing is always enjoyable (to me, at least).
-It had "insider information." It was like having a window into the inner workings of the Bush administration.
-It was even ... Read More
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