Recommendations from our site
“What it Takes is unvarnished; it really shows you the intertwining politics and personalities of the participants in a campaign which had open competitive primary races on both sides. The book portrays three Democrats and three Republicans. It’s a fascinating read.” Read more...
“This is about the 1988 presidential campaign and is one of the great political books. Cramer was a Yale classmate of George H Bush and so had better access again to the family. It’s really about the father, about George H, and George W plays only a small role, but it has very revelatory scenes in it showing how George W was acting out and was the troublemaker and the reckless one, the black sheep, and how the rest of the family dealt with it. In 1986 George H was trying to get his campaign started and it’s about how people reacted to him and about Prescott Bush, his father, and the sense of this political family dynasty. It’s a great read and he tells the story of the rise of George H better than anyone else has ever told it.” Read more...
The best books on George W Bush
Jacob Weisberg, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville & Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (translators) -
The Grapes of Wrath
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The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich A Hayek -
Losing Ground
by Charles Murray -
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America since 1945
by George H Nash -
What It Takes
by Richard Ben Cramer
