A vibrant collection of oil paintings and stories by President George W. Bush honoring the sacrifice and courage of America's military veterans. With Forewords by former First Lady Laura Bush and General Peter Pace, 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
George W. Bushis the 43rd President of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009. He previously served as Governor of Texas. He and his wife, Laura, now live in Dallas, where they founded the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University. President Bush is also the author of three #1 bestsellers- Decision Points, his presidential memoir;41, a biography of his father, President George H.W. Bush; andPortraits of Courage,a collection of oil paintings and stories honoring the sacrifice and courage of America's military veterans.
“[A] departure from anything anyone named Bush — or any other
President — has published after leaving office . . . Accompanying
the portraits are stories, also written by Bush, about how each
subject dealt with setback and then mounted a recovery. The paths
are anything but straightforward, and Bush's book, in words and
pictures, is a challenge and a road map for anyone who faces
difficulty.”
-TIME
“What an uplifting volume. It’s a testament to, for sure, the
GIs it portrays – and, by implication, to all our soldiers, airmen,
and sailors. It’s also a tale of life’s capacity to surprise,
its ability to hand up new and unexpected lives not only to these
veterans but also to their constitutional commander.”
-Seth Lipsky, New York Post
“Evocative and surprisingly adept . . . After staring at the
haunting close-up portraits of wounded warriors and reading the
searing accounts of their suffering, I’m beginning to understand
why this beautifully published book went to No. 1 on The Times’s
nonfiction best-seller list.”
-Jonathan Alter, the New York Times Book Review
“Most of [the portraits] show the head and face full size,
seemingly bursting out of the frame with genuine presence and
considerable expressive energy . . . There is genuine empathy in
Bush’s embrace of the stories told by these soldiers . . . He
demonstrates in this book and in these paintings virtues that are
sadly lacking at the top of the American political pyramid today:
curiosity, compassion, the commitment to learn something new and
the humility to learn it in public.”
-Philip Kennicott, the Washington Post
“[It’s] impossible to look at these 98 extraordinary images without
thinking deeply about the artist who made them: A leader who sent
troops off to the battlefield, and who, so many years later, spends
his days channeling the damaged but determined warriors who came
home . . . Spend a little time in the presence of these pictures,
and one is overwhelmed by their subjects’ sacrifices, their
courage, their strength and, in some cases, their turmoil.”
-Task and Purpose
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