George W. Bush Memoir "Decision Points" Coming Nov. 9
Crown Publishers
Former President George W. Bush's memoir, "Decision Points," will include "gripping, never-before-heard detail" about the Bush presidency, according to Crown Publishers, which is releasing the book. The presidential memoir will hit bookshelves on November 9th, just days after the midterm elections.
Crown has revealed details of the book as well as its cover, which shows a pensive looking Mr. Bush, holding a briefing book, looking off into the distance while standing in the Rose Garden Colonnade. (See at left.)
"Decision Points" will be structured around 14 "critical and historic" decisions made by the former president, both political (his response to the Sept. 11 attacks and the contentions 2000 election) and personal (his decision to quit drinking and "discovery of faith").
''Since leaving the Oval Office, President Bush has given virtually no interviews or public speeches about his presidency,'' Crown said in a statement. ''Instead, he has spent almost every day writing 'Decision Points,' a strikingly personal and candid account revealing how and why he made the defining decisions in his consequential presidency and personal life.''
A source tells the Associated Press that Mr. Bush, who has indeed maintained a low-profile since leaving the White House, has finished the first draft of the book and that it is now in the editing process.
In its statement, Crown said Mr. Bush ''writes honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes," while also discussing "his historic achievements in reforming education, providing life-saving treatments for HIV/AIDS and malaria for millions of people in Africa, safeguarding the country from another terrorist attack, and other areas.''
Continues the statement: "President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governor's Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on 9/11 in the gripping hours after America's most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; inside the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq; and behind the Oval Office desk for his historic and controversial decisions on the financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, Iran, and other issues that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century."
Mr. Bush is planning a book tour, though details have not been released. The memoir will have a list price of $35 (though it can be had for less), and 1,000 signed and clothbound special editions will be made available $350.
Former first lady Laura Bush's memoir "Spoken from the Heart" will be released on May 4th. Former Bush adviser Karl Rove's memoir, "Courage and Consequences," was released last month, and former Vice President Dick Cheney is working on a memoir as well. That book is expected to be hit stores next year.
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Mr. President, I just wished you had put that kind of thought and earnestness into your actual presidency instead of blindly and passively following the Rove/Cheney bandwagon for nearly 8 years.
Sorry to tell you, but the world is not as simple as you "think".
And FYI we're all on the same ship, so enough of the Junior High gamesmanship. Neither party has a lock on being right or wrong about anything...get with it dude.
The Library will include:
The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.
The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you won?t be able to remember anything, including Harriet Meyers "What Contitution Law" coloring book.
The WaterBoarding Is FUN, not Torture at all Room.
The Colonel Miller ?Enhanced Interrogation Methods Room?: Dogs, sexual naked degradation, nooses, extreme heat/cold.
The Texas Air National Guard Champagne Room, where you don?t even have to show up to avoid VietNam.
The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don?t let you in, and if get in Nobody Sees You.
Voodoo Economics Room, where $ 5 Billion per month Wars are ?OFF FEDERAL BUDGET?.
The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don?t let you out.
The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one has been able to find.
The National Debt Room, which is huge and has no ceiling. How to take a $ 252 Billion Surplus and Lose $ 3 Trillion in eight years.
The Tax Cut Room, with entry only to the wealthy.
The Economy ?Is Strong ?n Steady Room?, which is in the toilet.
The Iraq War Room. After you complete your first tour, they make you to go back f or a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth tour. Volunteers Only, no Republican wealthy sons and daughters.
The Dick Cheney Secret Energy Meeting Room, means Invade Eye-Raq Oil.
The Dick Cheney Control Room, in the famous undisclosed location, with Andrews Jets 9/11 standdown .
The Clear Skies Room, removing Power Plant Coal burning regulations.
The Environmental Conservation Room, still empty. "Sustainable Forests" means "Clearcutting Allowed", access roads paid by taxpayers.
The Supreme Court?s Gift Shop, where Corporations can spend All ?Free Speech? Money in U. S. elections.
The Airport Men?s Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators with "wide stances".
The Decider Room, complete with Intercom to Cheney Secret Location Room, and W?s Skull & Bones magic 8-blackball.
The museum will also have original Mission Accomplished Banner?, got Republican Congress to increase President retirement from $ 200,000 to $ 400,000 per year, tax free, forever.
Like Groping German Chancellor Angela Merkel in G-* Meeting?