Ultimate Bushisms

by Jacob Weisberg

'See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.' We laugh at every gaffe and malapropism. But when Jacob Weisberg set out to create a magnum opus summarising America's forty-third president's first term, he realised that there was more at stake than mere humour. Combining new and selected Bushisms with hilarious fact-checking of Bush's 'accurate' statements, and organising them according to Bush's own 'thinking' in such chapters as 'What I Stand For', 'Leadership' and, of course, 'Is Our Children Learning?', THE DELUXE ELECTION EDITION BUSHISMS combines the hilarity of the previous collections with the bite of Michael Moore and Al Franken. Love him or hate him, it is impossible not to laugh at him, and it is impossible not to buy and read this irresistible book.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2004

About the author

Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, who served as editor-in-chief of The Slate Group, a division of Graham Holdings Company. In September 2018, he left Slate to co-found Pushkin Industries, an audio content company, with Malcolm Gladwell. Weisberg was also a Newsweek columnist. He served as the editor of Slate magazine for six years before stepping down in June 2008. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and municipal commissioner.