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The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World by Bill Sammon
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Bill Sammon Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2007-09-25 ISBN: 1596985186 Number of pages: 232 Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Book Reviews of The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the WorldBook Review: THE EVANGELICAL CRUSADE Summary: 5 Stars
I give this book five stars because the author Bill Sammon, was able to get the inside information... and most of all because of a great title.
President Bush is a man that few of us truly understand. Sometimes Sammon gets caught up in talking too much about Vice President Cheny and others -- throughout the center of the book.. perhaps to cover up for his failure to digest the full implication of what President Bush contributes to the history of America... but who could acheive that? Dr. Thomas Moore does in his new book, THE PROGRESS OF MAN, at least with regard to many facets of President Bush. THE PROGRESS OF MAN is a rare and gifted literary effort which reveals much of the inner man --- and the author acknowledges that there is much more to be revealed within this simple but complex president.
I am arroused by Sammon's exploration of the spiritual nature of President Bush... about the certainty with which President Bush understands his mission on this planet - and is never overawed by the complexity of the tasks to be acomplished within such a simple and dispassionate faith.
A question arises as to how well We The People understood what we were getting ourselves in for when we elected this President, twice. Did the majority recognise that we voted for "an instrument of God, appointed to change the direction of humanity... armed only with the tool of simple faith in the power of Jesus Christ" -- and a humble awareness of his own flawed nature?
Sammon and Moore have each done something completely different. Instead of dramatizing the Endtimes events prophesized in Revelation, both Sammon and Moore have used them merely as a backdrop to tell a riveting and very human story of one flawed man's confrontation with himself, God, and human nature.
"Evangelical" and "Progress" remind me of another great book, HILLARY, in that it develops the full complexity and subtlety of divinely inspired but conflicted human nature.
Out of this character study of Hilary Clinton, the author develops complex themes about human nature, divinity, hatred, and relationships... just as Sammon does. I haven't read a more literary creation in quite some time.
Try Upland Road, GODLESS and Wanderlost for further reading regarding the nature of the big issue of today.
Summary of The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the WorldLook at the polls today and you might think President Bush is a failure. The media is relentlessly hostile to him. His party lost both houses of Congress in the 2006 election. And yet...and yet, his presidency could be one of the most important in modern times. George W. Bush not only faced an unprecedented attack on the American homeland, but he also responded with an ambitious effort to remake the world -- an effort being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq and in smaller skirmishes around the globe, an effort that for all its setbacks still might succeed, with revolutionary consequences. New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed White House reporter Bill Sammon is a true insider, and in his new book, The Evangelical President, he offers a snapshot of the Bush administration from winter 2005 to summer 2007. This momentous time mixed triumph and disaster-from the triumph of the successful tracking and killing of Al Qaeda's terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the spectacularly successful Iraqi elections, to the disaster of the subsequent unraveling in Iraq and American voters' repudiation of Bush in the congressional elections of 2006. But through it all, Sammon shows that President Bush took the high road, fighting to spread moral democracy around the world while the low-minded press focused on Vice President Cheney's accidental shooting of a friend while hunting and Virginia senator George Allen's use of the word macaca on the campaign trail. In this far-reaching book, Sammon details: * Why Bush believes the Republicans will hold the White House in 2008-and his candid assessment of Barack Obama
* Why the Supreme Court's ruling on the partial-birth abortion ban was a victory and vindication for Bush
* Why Bush is determined to press ahead with his policy in Iraq, despite his party's loss in Congress
* Why Bush has offered advice to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
* How the media has continuously underestimated President Bush, mocking him for his faith and ignoring his achievements.
The Evangelical President is an unforgettable glimpse of a President at war, supported by an evangelical belief that tyranny should be overthrown, democracy supported, and America defended, combined with a steely stubbornness to see those goals through.
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