D’oh! President George W. Bush’s Memoir Copies Other Books |
Is anyone really surprised that George W. Bush’s memoir is a compilation of other people’s work? Isn’t that pretty much how he got to where he is today by half a** doing the work necessary? Talk about living up to your own narrative.
Via The Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim:
When Crown Publishing inked a deal with George W. Bush for his memoirs, the publisher knew it wasn’t getting Faulkner. But the book, at least, promises “gripping, never-before-heard detail” about the former president’s key decisions, offering to bring readers “aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America’s most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq,” and other undisclosed and weighty locations.
Instead, Crown got a mash-up of worn-out anecdotes from previously published memoirs written by his subordinates, from which Bush lifts quotes word for word, passing them off as his own recollections. He took equal license in lifting from nonfiction books about his presidency or newspaper or magazine articles from the time. Far from shedding light on how the president approached the crucial “decision points” of his presidency, the clip job illuminates something shallower and less surprising about Bush’s character: He’s too lazy to write his own memoir.
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