75-76, for his daughters' sake) and how he finally overcame alcoholism (p. Bush opens the book with an important example: his admission at age 40 that he was an alcoholic (p. The purpose of transparency is to let citizens understand why Bush decided what he did, whether they agree or not. This is a positive kind of justification, which is presumably Bush's intent in exposing the details of his decision points. We'll group these justifications into three categories: But mostly it provides for justifications of his decisions, some of which are intensely unsatisfying. This does provide details that were previously unknown (such as comparing his "call to run" for the presidency with Moses' call from God to lead, p. The title of the book, "Decision Points", provides Bush's framework: he explains in detail how many of his major decisions as president came about, including some decisions prior to his presidency. Perhaps a future book by Bush will address more of the political criticisms - books about Bush most certainly will! There is plenty of material here on which political critics will disagree Bush only addresses some of them.
Hence it represents his preliminary presentation of his legacy as president. This book is Bush's first public discussion of his presidency since leaving office. OR click on an issue category below for a subset.
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