Bush write “Decision Points” (Crown $35)? He tells us on the first page. Bill Clinton needed the world’s undying attention. Richard Nixon couldn’t stop producing his, in one form or another, in a quest to revise history’s devastating verdict. Modern ex-Presidents tend to write memoirs for reasons less heroic than Grant’s. He completed the work a year later, just days before his death, and Julia Dent Grant lived out her life in comfort. On several occasions, he even accuses himself of “moral cowardice.” Grant never intended to write his memoirs, but in 1884, swindled by his financial partner, broke, and with a death sentence of throat cancer hanging over him, he set out to earn enough money to provide for his future widow. I could see why his work had endured.” Grant’s work has endured because, as Matthew Arnold observed, it has “the high merit of saying clearly in the fewest possible words what had to be said, and saying it, frequently, with shrewd and unexpected turns of expression.” Grant marches across the terrain of his life (stopping short of his corrupt failure of a Presidency) with the same relentless and unflinching realism with which he pursued Robert E. “He uses anecdotes to re-create his experience during the Civil War. Grant.” “The book captures his distinctive voice,” the ex-President writes, in his less distinctive voice.
Bush prepared for writing his memoirs by reading “Personal Memoirs of U.
He merely had to ask himself, “Who am I?” Illustration by Barry Blitt For Bush, decisions happened without the weighing of evidence and options.
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