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Book Review of "The Bush Tragedy"
By ALAN BRINKLEY
Published: March 2, 2008
With almost a year still to go in George W. Bush’s presidency, he has already become the subject of an astonishing amount of literature — on the war in Iraq, on his controversial economic and social policies, on his two contested presidential elections and on the man himself. So Jacob Weisberg, the editor of Slate, treads some familiar ground in his effort to understand the origins of Bush’s much explored psyche. His analysis is not as original or startling as he sometimes claims; his explanations of Bush’s behavior are often highly speculative; and he relies too much on such overworked clichés as the parallels between the president and Shakespeare’s Henry V. But “The Bush Tragedy” is, nevertheless, an intelligent and illuminating book. It takes much of what we already know and uses it to create a mostly persuasive account of the character and behavior of a man whom many observers have already called the most disastrous president in our history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Brinkley-t.html?ref=books