In this detailed and extremely well-researched book on the Bush dynasty, Russ Baker brilliantly demonstrates how influence, power, money, image polishing, covert sabotage and backroom dealing are what go into making a U.S. president. This book should serve as a corrective to those who actually th...
But with Poppy’s ouster from the CIA directorship in early 1977, the hub shifted with him to Houston. Officially, Poppy was returning to the traditional family business: banking. Wealth in America had been steadily shifting westward since Prescott Bush turned in his Yale baseball cleats for a ban...