Image of George W Bush in Book 'George W. Bush Major World Leaders'

My book review is on the book George W. Bush Major World Leaders by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. George Bush was the 43rd president. He served as president from 1989-1993. He was born on July 6, 1946. He had also served as the 46th governor of Texas in 1995-2000.

On September 11, 2001 President George W. Bush woke up and went for a jog. He was to speak to a class of second graders that day. As he was speaking to the class he got pulled into a holding room and was told a plane hit the north tower of the trade center in New York City. He thought it was an accident. He was listening to the kids read and was told the other tower had been hit. He had to go back to Washington at this point. While he was at the Sarasota Airport he had been told a plane hit the west side of the pentagon. The white house was then evacuated. He took a flight to a secret destination. A fourth plane had landed in a field in PA instead of it’s original target. The two senators of New York offered aid and gave Bush twenty billion dollars for help in New York City. Bush flew to New York City after he had a meeting and his dad told him to go. Bush had planned war. On September twentieth he gave the speech of his life.

Bush’s great grandfather, Samuel P. Bush, started the family empire. He was a charter member of the United States Chamber of Commerce. He served as a key advisor to President Herbert Hoover. Prescott Bush continued the family traditions and had a long list of achievements. He played football and baseball for Yale University. He married Dorothy Walker. He expected a lot from his kids. He expected them to play as good as they can sports. He served in World War 1 as a soldier. Prescott Bush also was a US senator from Connecticut.

At fifteen years old, George W. Bush had to leave his family and go to, live with strangers. He moved to Andover, Massachusetts and attended Phillips Academy. He only knew one person from his new school. He wanted to live up to the reputation of his father. George W. was a junior varsity caliber player in basketball and baseball. He was not very good at sports so he decided to do cheerleading. After 3 years at Andover was head cheerleader. During his first summer at Andover, he was a messenger and runner for a law firm in Houston. His second summer he worked at the Quarter Circle xx Ranch in Northern Arizona. He then got accepted to Yale towards the end of his third year. When he was eighteen he decided to take on politics. He always did better in classes he liked, especially history. During a party he was arrested by the New Haven police for underage drinking. They eventually dropped the charges. He wanted to go back to Texas when he graduates with his family.

Bush decided to be a pilot during the Vietnam war. He got accepted because he passed all the pilot tests and there were very few people that wanted to sign the contract for six years of flight training. He spent five weeks at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio for basic training. George W. worked as an aid for the senatorial campaign of Congressman Edward J. Gurney of Florida. He had to get press corps members on and off the campaign plane and get them to hotel rooms. At the end of November, He arrived at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia. Bush was the only Guardsman out of 70 people. He did very well in pilot school. Pilot training was on in December 1969. He went back to Houston for an assignment.

Everyone said George W. was a friendly guy. He turned his rented guest house into a bachelor pad. He tied his bed frame together with neckties. Many of his parents old friends lived in the oil town and turned to them for advice. Oil drillers and landowners was the place to start in the oil business. He went to the courthouse to look up deeds. He only wanted to know who owned the earth below. He talked to farmers about selling their mineral rights. He lived on a tight budget. He had to wear hand me down shirts and lived on a tight budget. He always had fun with his friends. He went to backyard barbeques. He also cheered on the league Midland Angels, and played touch football. He volunteered for the United Way and taught sunday school. He supported the Republican Party. He invested in a little in wells after living in Midland for a year. The oil business was not as easy as what he thought it would be.

George W. Bush became the 43rd President on January 20, 2001. The US submarine Greenville surfaced in a routine drill and hit a Japanese fishing boat. It killed nine people and injured many others. In March two huge statues in Afghanistan had to be destroyed. They were about 1,600 and 1,800 years old. An American spy plane made an emergency landing on a Chinese island. They had to land there because it collided with a Chinese plane. The Chinese wanted Americans to apologize. Two Muslim extremists were convicted of the bombings in 1998 of the United States in Kenya and Tanzania. 244 people were killed during the bombings. He had announced his decision on federal funds used for stem cell research by August. 9/11 then happened. On September 11, 2001 a plane hit each world trade center building. A plane also hit the Pentagon. One plane landed in a field instead of its original destination. He was most focused on getting ai for the victims and stopping terrorism. George Tenet had made a plan for war against the terrorist training camps. The terrorist training camps were headed by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. That is my book review on “George W. Bush Major World Leaders”