George W. Bush

George W. Bush was the forty-third President of the United States. He was elected to serve two terms from 2001 to 2009. His first electoral victory against Vice President Al Gore was extremely close in the electoral college and was contested in a recount through the Florida Supreme Court. Electoral irregularities in the state Florida, where his brother Jeb Bush was governor, led some commentators to suggest the election was stolen for Bush. Before being elected to the presidency Bush was the forty-sixth governor of Texas 1995 to 2000. Prior to that he was the President of the Dallas Texans Baseball team.

Bush is a scion of extremely wealthy and well-connected political family. He is the son of the forty-first president of the United States George H.W. Bush and the grandson of the Connecticut Senator and financier Prescott Bush. Russ Baker’s excellent book, Family of Secrets makes...