Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the 41st President and to his family, Jon Meacham's Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush a surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times.
Meacham will visit the Darien Community Association (DCA) for a book talk and signing on Wednesday, November 2 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 for DCA members, $30 for the public, or a couple. Ticket price includes a copy of the paperback book and a glass of wine.
From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his study in the private quarters of the White House to Air Force One, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the first Gulf War to the end of communism, Destiny and Power charts the thoughts, decisions, and emotions of a man who was, like the nation he led, at once noble and flawed.
Presidential historian, Contributing Editor at TIME, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham is Executive Vice President and Executive Editor at Random House, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a regular guest on “Morning Joe.” Destiny and Power is his latest book and a #1 New York Times bestseller.
"Meacham's book should be required reading--if not for every presidential candidate, then for every president-elect." - Washington Post
Through one man's long journey through politics, we see America's changing attitudes toward power and duty." - Time
"Destiny and Power reflects the qualities of both subject and biographer: judicious, balanced, deliberative, with a deep appreciation of history and the personalities who shape it. If Meacham is sometimes polite to a fault, Destiny and Power does not suffer for it. His kinder, gentler approach succeeds in making George H. W. Bush a more sympathetic - and more complex - figure than if the former president had written his own doorstopper after all." - New York Times Book Review
Reservations are requested for this General Programs event and may be made online or by contacting the DCA at info@dariendca.org or 203-655-9050 ext. 10.