Part of The American President Series published by Times Books,
an imprint of Henry Holt Timothy Naftali’s biography of 41st
President of the United States is a work that brings out the
multi-dimensional nature of George Herbert Walker Bush. The
father of the 43rd President of the United States, George W Bush
and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and the son of a former US
Senator, Naftali’s portrait of Bush is spelled out in the
introduction to the book where he indicates that part of his
purpose is to “bring George Bush’s presidency into focus. The
portrait that Naftali goes onto paint is one of a an ambitious,
yet humble man who was at turns both conservative and
progressive, steel-willed and emotional. A war hero at 21,
Naftali follows Bush as he forsakes his eastern roots and moves
to Texas as an oilman following graduation at Yale. He finds
success and then begins to pursue a career in politics that
includes a one term stint as a congressman but then broadens
into a journey to the United Nations as the