Destiny and Power
The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “illuminating” (USA Today) biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush.
“Destiny and Power reflects the qualities of both subject and biographer: judicious, balanced, deliberative, with a deep appreciation of history and the personalities who shape it.”—The New York Times Book Review
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Drawing on President Bush’s personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty-first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the…
$27.00
October 18, 2016Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer. The author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, and The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, he is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville and in Sewanee with his wife and children.
American Struggle
Jon Meacham
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
The Call to Serve
Jon Meacham
And There Was Light
Jon Meacham
Songs of America: Young Reader's Edition
Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw
His Truth Is Marching On
Jon Meacham
In the Hands of the People
Edited and with an introduction by Jon Meacham
The Hope of Glory
Jon Meacham
The Impeachment Report
The House Intelligence Committee, with an introduction by Jon Meacham
Songs of America
Jon Meacham & Tim McGraw
The Soul of America
Jon Meacham
Impeachment
Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker, Jeffrey A. Engel