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Jeb, February 2007
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America's Next Bush
Tarcher
February 2007
On Sale: February 15, 2007
416 pages
ISBN: 1585425486
EAN: 9781585425488
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Non-Fiction Biography
Jeb Bush, Florida's governor and a dutiful prince, was
groomed his entire life for the presidency only to learn
that life isn't fair when his far less industrious black
sheep brother beat him to the job. S. V. Date, who, as
Tallahassee bureau chief of The Palm Beach Post, has covered
Jeb for eight years, rejects the trend in political
journalism that focuses only on American Idol-like
artifice-who's up and who's down and what are the latest
poll numbers?-and muckrakes his way to the core of Jeb in
this revealing account of his Florida years. This was no
easy task, for in Jeb's kingdom dissent is frowned upon and
journalists are supposed to be accommodating stenographers,
not steadfast reporters. D‡te soon became the biggest
journalistic thorn in Jeb's side, producing award-winning
stories that revealed the real winners and losers of Bush's
policies. Jeb's second and final term as Florida governor ends in
January 2007. He leaves office a popular man in his home
state, and revered by the national Republican Party's
conservative base. True, Bush fatigue may result in Jeb
settling for the vice-presidency in 2008-he's already
discussed this possibility with John McCain-and maybe NFL
commissioner in 2007, but his day will come, and D‡te shows
us why: Jeb, unlike his brother George, is a policy wonk,
knows how to take charge when a natural disaster strikes, is
a workaholic, eloquently speaks without notes, and, at
six-four, has a larger-than-life charismatic presence that
makes even opponents say: "I want him to like me."
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