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&ldquo;[Jon] Meacham&rsquo;s book should be required reading&mdash;if not for every presidential candidate, then for every president-elect.&rdquo;&mdash;The Washington Post &#160; &ldquo;Destiny and Power reflects the qualities of both subject and biographer: judicious, balanced, deliberative, with a deep appreciation of history and the personalities who shape it. If Meacham is sometimes polite to a fault, Destiny and Power does not suffer for it. His kinder, gentler approach succeeds in making George H. W. Bush a more sympathetic&mdash;and more complex&mdash;figure than if the former president had written his own doorstopper after all.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times Book Review &#160; &ldquo;Jon Meacham, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Andrew Jackson, put an enormous amount of work into this volume: nine years of interviews, full access to the diaries of George H. W. and Barbara Bush, and an open door to family members and friends. Add to this Meacham&rsquo;s balanced journalism and smooth writing, and you have a fascinating biography of the forty-first president.&rdquo;&mdash;The Dallas Morning News &#160; &ldquo;When we rank, reconsider, laud, or denounce past Presidents, living or dead, we are taking stock of our own times. In that sense, the vindication of George H. W. Bush is a reflection of what we know we&rsquo;ve lost. Jon Meacham&rsquo;s new biography of Bush, Destiny and Power, makes that plain from its very first pages.&rdquo;&mdash;The New Yorker &#160; &ldquo;Graceful prose, backed by diligent mining of the archives and access to an oral diary that Bush dictated throughout his presidency . . . The story of the forty-first man to hold the office sheds light not only on the country we were, but the one we&rsquo;ve become.&rdquo;&mdash;Los Angeles Times &#160; &ldquo;Meacham is a superb historian and he weaves a compelling historical narrative, drawing heavily on Bush&rsquo;s own contemporaneous diaries. The result is a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into high-stakes decision making in a rapidly evolving world.&rdquo;&mdash;The Seattle Times &#160;&ldquo;Through one man&rsquo;s long journey through politics, we see America&rsquo;s changing attitudes toward power and duty.&rdquo;&mdash;Time &#160; &ldquo;Illuminating . . . written from Bush&rsquo;s perspective but with a journalist&rsquo;s rigor . . . George and Barbara Bush have provided extraordinary cooperation [for] an account of his life and presidency that has depth and value.&rdquo;&mdash;USA Today (4 out of 4 stars) &ldquo;A gripping new biography of the forty-first president.&rdquo;&mdash;The Economist&ldquo;Meticulously researched . . . a revealing biography that should serve as the starting point for future evaluations of the forty-first president.&rdquo;&mdash;Kirkus Reviews &#160; &ldquo;A vivid, well-written account.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly&ldquo;The more time passes, the more the dust settles, the clearer it becomes that George H. W. Bush and the strengths of character he brought to his long service to this country deserve more attention and appreciation. And now comes Destiny and Power, Jon Meacham&rsquo;s altogether fair, insightful biography of the forty-first president&mdash;a portrait made especially compelling by the author&rsquo;s remarkable access to Bush&rsquo;s private White House diaries. This is a timely, first-rate book!&rdquo;&mdash;David McCullough &#160; &ldquo;What a spectacular and moving portrait this is&mdash;not only of a remarkably classy man but of the era that shaped him! It is hard to imagine a biographer more fitted than Jon Meacham to write what will surely be the definitive work on George Herbert Walker Bush.&rdquo;&mdash;Doris Kearns Goodwin&ldquo;This astonishing book is both timely and timeless. Based on candid interviews and intimate letters and diaries, it provides a deep insight into the character of George H. W. Bush, flavored with colorful anecdotes depicting his relationships with people ranging from Gorbachev and Reagan to his sons George and Jeb. The result is a fascinating and insightful portrayal of the life of an exemplary American citizen.&rdquo;&mdash;Walter Isaacson &#160; &ldquo;Jon Meacham&rsquo;s timely and intimate biography of George Bush 41 is a welcome reminder of this modest president&rsquo;s call to service, from the cockpits of World War II to the Oval Office and the end of the Cold War. Here you&rsquo;ll meet a man of patrician manners, wartime heroics, Texas assimilation, party and personal loyalty, with a refined sense of power that carried him into history. Meet the George Bush you didn&rsquo;t know.&rdquo;&mdash;Tom Brokaw &#160; &ldquo;This riveting biography by the incomparable Jon Meacham gives George H. W. Bush his well-deserved place in history. Destiny and Power is full of surprises, revealing 41&rsquo;s important role in scene after crucial historical scene of the past seven decades. President Bush used to say that he could never quite convey his &ldquo;heartbeat&rdquo; to Americans. Now, using a treasure of heretofore unseen diaries and other documents, as well as his own detailed interviews, Meacham takes us behind closed doors to show us what this sometimes misunderstood leader was really like.&rdquo;&mdash;Michael Beschloss

The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

Destiny and Power

From Johannes Kepler's 17th-century drawing board to the Mars Society's Web site; from Apollo XI to Apollo XIII; from Russia's Mir space station (scheduled to return to Earth in bits) to American robots (scheduled to return to Mars, but when?), the story of human endeavors in outer space has plenty of physics and engineering, plenty of drama, plenty of heroism and not a few bits of hubris and folly. Crouch (whose previous work includes The Bishop's Boys, a biography of the Wright brothers) has produced a book far more informative than his gung-ho title suggests: his book explains, very accessibly, the prehistory and history of space flight, mixing accounts of key players (well known and unknown) with relevant technical and political history. Crouch covers not only rocket science pioneer Robert Goddard, but his German counterpart, Hermann Oberth, who in 1923 published Die Rakete zu den Planetenraumen (The Rocket into Interplanetary Space). Another chapter covers the U.S. and Soviet race to recruit ex-Nazi scientists: after Sputnik, a Pentagon spokesman was heard to complain, "We got the wrong Germans!" Wernher von Braun plays a big role in Crouch's account, but so do Soviet space expert Sergei Korolev, Caltech's eccentric experts John Parsons and Theodore von K rm n (who worked to invent better rocket motors) and the able technocrat James Webb, who took the helm of NASA after Kennedy promised the U.S. public the moon. Later chapters deal ably with the space stations of the 1970s, the space shuttle missions of the 1980s and the current use of commercial satellites and unmanned space exploration. (from Publishers Weekly; Illustrations not seen by PW. (Oct.); Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.) In this narrative history of the space age, Crouch (curator of Aeronautics, National Air and Space Museum) rounds up the usual suspectsAKonstantin Tsiolkovsky and Robert H. Goddard, Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev. He does a capable job of laying out the story of space travel for a general audience, focusing especially on the contributions these major players made in their lifetimes. He details both the manned programsAfrom Vostok and Mercury, to Apollo and Soyuz and on through the Shuttle and the International Space StationAto the major unmanned probes that have been sent to the planets. The only problem with this latest single-volume space history is that it covers the same ground as two other excellent and recent effortsAT.A. Heppenheimer's Countdown (LJ 5/15/97) and William Burrows's This New Ocean (LJ 9/15/98). Recommended for libraries (both public and academic) not holding either of these earlier works. (from Library Journal; A Thomas J. Frieling, Bainbridge Coll. Lib., GA; Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.)Aiming for the Stars is much more than an informative guide to the past, present, and future of the space program. It is also an inspiring personal account of the men and women who sacrificed so much for all of us along the pathways to space. If you have only one book on your shelf about space history, make it this one. Even the most avid space-flight junkie will find something new on every page. (Homer H. Hickam Jr.)

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