Art
March 13, 2013
George W. Bush, Passionate Painter
He signs his landscapes, dog portraits, and bath scenes "43."…
George Bush
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
The Good Wife
Is she a “saccharine phony”? A closet liberal? A foot soldier—or a rebel—in the culture wars? The truth about Laura Bush is that her ambiguity makes her a model first lady: a blank screen upon which the public can project its own ideas about womanhood.
Politics & Policy
January 20, 2013
The Education of Laura Bush
A first read on the Midland librarian in the White House: what she has learned so far and how her life has changed.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 2008
End of The Road
During all but two of the past twenty years, someone named Bush had led our nation or led our state. Now we’re moving on.
News & Politics
April 30, 1999
The Obsession Thing
When someone says she loves George Bush these days, she’s almost certainly talking about the man William Bennett recently christened “W.” But at least one novelist prefers the ex-president to the presidential hopeful. Next January Simon and Schuster will publish Lydia Millet’s George Bush, Dark Prince of Love, which she…
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1998
President and Accounted For
BUSH VERSUS GORE: Is it the battle for president in 2000? No, it was the Houston mayoral runoff in December. When Vice President Al Gore, with his eye on the Democratic nomination two years hence, came to a fundraiser for eventual winner Lee Brown, Bill Clinton’s first drug czar, the…
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1974
The Peter Out Principle
The Texas GOP cranks down for November elections.