More George W. Bushisms [antikvár]

FOREWORD BY GARRY TRUDEAUWhile a great deal of thought and care has gone into the creation of this little volume, it is altogether fitting that none of it was by its author. That credit falls to the book's editor, Jacob Weisberg, whose unmatched bona fides as a curator of Bush family utterances extend back more than a decade. Weisberg cut his fangs on Bush pax, whose malapropisms he tracked as a lowly editorial assistant on 1992's Bushisms: President George Herbert Walker Bush, In His Own Words. That collection quickly died in the bookstores, but since it was published shortly before Bush senior tanked in the general election, Weisberg correctly, in my judgmentwas not held directly responsible. Thus, when George W Bush suddenly emerged a few years later, making even less sense than his father, Weisberg was uniquely positioned, like an Arabic-speaking CIA agent on September 12. He immediately volunteered his services to Michael Kinsley, his editor at Slate, offering to set up a kind of conservatory for second