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Easton Press Norwalk, CT, U.S.A. "All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings". 1999 First Edition - First Printing 8vo . Full genuine leather. The true First Edition and first printing of this title, a signed limited edition of only 3,000 signed and numbered copies. Beautiful dark blue leather binding. Includes COA, collector notes, and an extra unattached bookplate for your own personalization. Fine condition.

"The travelogue of an observant man with much mettle and an open heart....His writings cover affairs of state and affairs of spaniels on equal footing. He is modest and gracious. But these short takes on a long life reveal an underlying, consistent sense of duty to office, family and morality." - People Magazine

In lieu of a memoir, All the Best, George Bush collects correspondence and diary entries from the former U. S. President to show, as he says, "what my own heartbeat is, what my values are, what has motivated me in life. " The letters begin in 1942--when, fresh out of high school, Bush volunteered for U. S. Navy flight school--and continue to the brink of the 21st century, as the retired chief executive worries about the Melissa virus infecting his office's server and keeping his visiting grandchildren in line. ("I realize, " he muses, "Keep the freezer door closed from now on and I mean it lacks the rhetorical depth of This will not stand or Read my lips. ") All the Best hits all the highlights of Bush's career, from the Texas oil business to his role as ambassador to China, then CIA director, vice president under Ronald Reagan, and finally president himself. Along the way, he reveals a personality that is at turns compassionate, respectful, silly, doting, and resolute--a man for whom being a father and a grandfather matters as much as, and maybe even more than, being leader of the free ...