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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a thorough anti-Bushite who believes he's lead (or more accurately NOT lead) this country into a domestic and foreign relations/policy mess that will take decades to clean-up. And that's when I'm optimistic.<br/>I picked the book up after having read the reviews promising that it was an objecti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17625516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author begins his story well before Bush 43’s presidency, going back to earlier Bush and Walker generations for traits and characteristics.  Actually, the author seems to go back much earlier than that, alluding to parallels between George Bush #43 and Shakespeare’s Prince Hal from Henry IV ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22556271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, so I said it was time to take a break from books on Iraq for my blood pressure's sake.  But this isn't a book about Iraq exclusively; it's about Bush...and exploring his personality and how it has driven his presidency, including in Iraq.  That might mitigate this as a &quot;lapse.&quot;<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19317024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fascinating look at George W. Bush -- the man and his presidency -- from the point of view of his family background and significant adult relationships. The chapters on W's extended family background, his relationships with Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, and the evolution of his foreign policy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16180872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though at times Weisberg's reliance on his Henriad metaphor gets in the way of his argument (not to mention it carries just the kind of intellectualizing that Bush would hate), overall this is a fascinating psychological study of Bush and the failure of his presidency, combining keen insight with ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14604913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great explanation of why W is the way he is, and why he did what he did. I could have done without the Henry IV, Henry V Shakespeare parallels, but I found the modern-day conjecture (Yes, in the end it's still conjecture) totally plausible. And, even though it's billed as a tragedy, Weisberg had s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20922030">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of the information Weisberg melds together is rehashed from previous works on the Bush dyanasty, Dick Cheney and Karl Rover. However, his thesis that Bush 43's life resembles a Shakespearean tragedy was interesting to read. This book provides a sound personality assessment of a president who w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21984188">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Bush Tragedy, by Jacob Weisberg.  Narrated by Robertson Dean, produced by Blackstone Audio, downloaded from audible.com.<br/><br/>Publisher’s note:<br/>In this first important consideration of the George W. Bush presidency and its profound impact on the state of the world, Jacob Weisberg cr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42141610">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>As far as I'm concerned, the three books which give you the whole picture on GWB are David Corn's &quot;The Lies of George W Bush&quot;, Hatfield's &quot;Fortunate Son&quot; (and the movie &quot;Horns and Halos&quot;, which is about the poor bastard's tortured biographical efforts and su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55377176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As with most things about the Bush admin. my interest is tempered by my disgust. Only got about 100 pages into this thing. My entire 30s have been spent with this horrible person and his cohorts in charge of America. It's a depressing notion.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jesus Christ, for a while, I thought I was beginning to feel something approaching empathy. But in the end, it cannot be denied that the tragedy is ours, and so my empathy was actually directed towards myself, as usual.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like I should apologize for voting for GWB. I beg your forgivness.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this book, Jacob Weisberg examines the failed and soon to be-disastrous-presidency of George W. Bush. In drawing a portrait of the 43rd president, Weisberg said that the failure of Bush as a president is deep rooted in his psyche and his family's upbringing. Weisberg moves on to examine the trage...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33685847">more...</a>]]></body>
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