Jean edward smith bush review

Renowned historian and biographer Jean Edward Smith&#;s &#;Bush&#; was published in Smith is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. His biographies of Grant, FDR and Eisenhower were my favorites for those presidents.

He also wrote &#;John Marshall: Definer of a Nation&#; which I&#;m planning to read as follow-up to my focus on presidential biographies.

Published eight years after his presidency ended, this page biography covers Bush&#;s life from his birth through the first years of his retirement.

New bio is critical of Bush (43) presidency - USA TODAY

Unfortunately, Bush&#;s pre-presidency receives comparatively limited attention and Smith&#;s coverage of Bush&#;s retirement is, by necessity, quite brief.

The core of this book is Bush&#;s presidency with eighty percent of the biography devoted to his eight years in the White House. But readers expecting balanced coverage of these two terms are in for quite a surprise.

From the book&#;s first sentence to its last, Smith