Scathing review of Bush's book in New Yorker magazine

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/11/29/101129crbo_books_packer?currentPage=1

Every word of this review is right on in its assessment. Bush is a borderline-intelligence narcissist who, along with Cheney and their arrogant, tragic errors in judgment, plunged our country into needless war and recession--from which we may never recover. His book of lies should never have seen the light of day. As the review author says,

Here is a prediction: “Decision Points” will not endure. Its prose aims for tough-minded simplicity but keeps landing on simpleminded sententiousness. Though Bush credits no collaborator, his memoirs read as if they were written by an admiring sidekick who is familiar with every story Bush ever told but never got to know the President well enough to convey his inner life. Very few of its four hundred and ninety-three pages are not self-serving. ...Was Bush this rigid and incurious all his life? “Decision Points” records a notable lack of personal development...

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In my opinion, Bush's memoirs will take their place beside him in the darkest parts of history's cellar. He is, without a doubt, the worst president this country has ever had to endure.

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