Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

By Jon Meacham

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (2015) is a biography by Jon Meacham. Drawing on Bush's diaries and extensive interviews, Meacham follows the forty-first president from World War II pilot through Congress, the CIA, the vice presidency and the White House. The book weighs Bush's caution, personal alliances and place in late-twentieth-century American politics and foreign-policy choices.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is John Meacham's fabulous new biography of George H.W. Bush, "Destiny and Power." Meacham is one of America's greatest story tellers and he tells the tale of this quintessentially American hero and the political dynasty that he's part of beautifully. I'm 200 pages into it, but I can wholeheartedly recommend it, and I can't wait to finish it.”