From the web: “George H.W. Bush, Icon of the WASP Establishment—and of Brutal US Repression in the Third World”

George Herbert Walker Bush represented a ruling class in decay. His WASP awkwardness, his famous syntactical struggles—described in obituaries as an ah-shucks genuineness, a goofy, “irreducible niceness”—was symptomatic of an Establishment in crisis.

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt

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