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04198aim a2200445Ka 4500 001 95DEC74809DB11EF9809F61335ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240504010017 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 240223s2024 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0593952162 020 $a 9780593952160 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a PHO023100 $a HIS036000 $a PHO023100 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Meacham, Jon. 245 14 $a The call to serve $h [electronic resource] : $b The life of an american president, george herbert walker bush. $c Jon Meacham. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a New York : $b Books on Tape, $c 2024. 300 $a 1 online resource (3 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 02:39:40 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Jon Meacham. 520 $a In honor of the one hundredth anniversary of George H. W. Bush’s birth, this visually stunning chronicle features never-before-published photos and memories celebrating the forty-first president’s vision of leadership as service to country—curated by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham. Lavishly illustrated, The Call to Serve is an intimate, illuminating portrait of the forty-first president, a man who was so much more than just his politics. In words and images—many found in a lifetime of scrapbooks kept by Barbara Pierce Bush—Jon Meacham brings George H. W. Bush vividly to life. From the values of integrity, empathy, and grace that Bush learned in childhood to his leadership at the highest levels in tumultuous times, the forty-first president embodied an ideal of service that warrants attention in our own divided time. Bush pursued a life of service to America through his heroic combat experience in the Pacific during World War II, his political rise in Texas, his serving as U.S. ambassador to the UN, his time as envoy to China and as director of the CIA, his tenure as Ronald Reagan’s vice president, and his election as the forty-first president of the United States. Set against the background of America during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this book commemorates the legacy of a man who was far from perfect—he could be cutthroat on the campaign trail—but whose ambition was not an end unto itself. Bush’s drive to succeed was, rather, a means to put the values of balance, patriotism, and respect for others into action in the political arena. Toward the end of Bush’s life, the forty-fourth president, Barack Obama, said that Bush put the country first “both before he was president, while he was president, and ever since.” Featuring more than 450 photographs, Meacham’s introduction and commentary throughout, and narration drawn from his biography of George H. W. Bush, Destiny and Power, this is an essential tribute to a uniquely American life. * This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of photos from the book. 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Biography & Autobiography. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a History. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Photography. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a Meacham, Jon. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=10477874 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bc679e14-bb3b-4d3a-9cf6-657045c65b72&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/%7BBC679E14-BB3B-4D3A-9CF6-657045C65B72%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/%7BBC679E14-BB3B-4D3A-9CF6-657045C65B72%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/bc679e14-bb3b-4d3a-9cf6-657045c65b72 $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240504010048.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95DEC74809DB11EF9809F61335ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search