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Paperback. Pub the Date: March. 2003 Pages: 288 in Publisher by: Harper Perennial As the principal New York Times reporter assigned to cover George W. Bush's presidential campaign from it's earliest stages-and then as a White House correspondent-Frank uni has spent as much time around Bush over the last two years as any other reporter. In Bushed. uni paints the most thorough. balanced. eloquent. and lively portrait yet of a man in many ways ill-suited to the office he sought and won. focusing on small moments that often escaped the news media's notice. From the author's initial introduction to Bush through a nutty election night and Bush's first months in office. uni captures the president's familiar and less familiar oddities and takes readers on an often funny ....

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Frank Bruni, a New York Times reporter, has, in Ambling into History, drawn an informal, even-handed, largely anecdotal and revealing portrait of George W Bush, whose presidential campaign he covered. Bruni initially describes Bush as "part scamp and part bumbler", but his respect grows, and he finds that, with the September 11, 2001, bombings, Bush "inherited his true purpose", thereby spurring his emergence as a leader. Bruni is not especially concerned with Bush's political philosophy, preferring instead to relate many "small moments" to show what Bush "looked and acted like on the edges of what was usually considered news". Bruni is at his best when describing--often humorously--the exhausting life of the media corps during a campaign: the 24-hour days, the harrowing deadlines, and the brutish tedium of listening to and reporting on the same speech over and over again, a process he likens to "aerobic stenography". An equal-opportunity cynic, Bruni decries the "superficiality" not only of American politics but the media's coverage of it. This is an amiable and seemingly trustworthy peek behind the presidential rhetoric. --H O'Billovich, Amazon.com
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“One of the few insider accounts ... [to] reveal the immense impact the process ... has on shaping ... public officials.” (Kirkus Review)

“These insights are surprising and instructional.” (Publishers Weekly)

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  • PublisherHarpPeren
  • Publication date2003
  • ISBN 10 0060937823
  • ISBN 13 9780060937829
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages288
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