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02474aim a22003855a 4500 001 3B7C791EA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161103010209 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 160711s2016 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 $a 1515927989 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9781515927983 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT11672080 040 $a Midwest $d SILO 100 1 $a Smith, Jean Edward, $e author. 245 10 $a Bush $h [electronic resource] / $c Jean Edward Smith. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a [United States] : $b Tantor Audio : $c 2016. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (25hr., 04 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 $a Read by Tom Perkins. 520 $a George W. Bush, the forty-third president of the United States, almost single-handedly decided to invade Iraq. It was possibly the worst foreign-policy decision ever made by a president. The consequences dominated the Bush Administration and still haunt us today. In Bush, Jean Edward Smith demonstrates that it was not Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, or Condoleezza Rice, but President Bush himself who took personal control of foreign policy. Bush drew on his deep religious conviction that important foreign-policy decisions were simply a matter of good versus evil. Domestically, he overreacted to 9/11 and endangered Americans' civil liberties. Smith explains that it wasn't until the financial crisis of 2008 that Bush finally accepted expert advice, something that the "Decider," as Bush called himself, had previously been unwilling to do. As a result, he authorized decisions that saved the economy from possible collapse, even though some of those decisions violated Bush's own political philosophy. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 $a Bush, George W. $q (George Walker), $d 1946- 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 2001-2009. 700 1 $a Perkins, Tom. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11672080 $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ttm_9781515927983_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20161103012043.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3B7C791EA18B11E6AED112AEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search