Destiny and Power ─ The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush

From Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham comes a sweeping yet intimate biography of George H. W. Bush. Based on rigorous research, hours of private interviews, and extraordinary access to Bush’s diaries and to his family, Destiny and Power paints a vivid and affecting portrait of the distinctive American life of a man from the Greatest Generation: his childhood in Connecticut, his heroic service in World War II, his entry into the Texas oil business, and his storied rise in politics from congressman to U.N. ambassador to head of the CIA to forty-first president of the United States.

Jon Meacham received the Pulitzer Prize for his 2008 biography of Andrew Jackson,American Lion. An executive editor at Random House, he is also the author of theNew York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Gospel, andFranklin and Winston. Meacham, who teaches at Vanderbilt University and at The University of the South, lives in Nashville and in Sewanee with his wife and children.