Father figured.("George Herbert Walker Bush")(Book Review)

The American Prospect | May 1, 2004| | Copyright

GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH (PENGUIN LIVES SERIES) BY TOM WICKER * LIPPER/VIKING * 228 PAGES * $19.95

WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT JUST A few years ago that George Herbert Walker Bush would, to put it a bit cruelly, be relevant again? When he left office in January 1993, ceding the White House to a new party, a new generation, and a new governing philosophy, Bush seemed to slink off into the cavernous warehouse of history, settling into a nook alongside the undistinguished presidents of yesteryear. Undermined by the political right, abandoned by his predecessor's "Reagan ...

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