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Bush is the first to say "I'm not a textbook player. I'm a gut player." While he reads history like a user's manual--he has finished Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton and is now on to one about Charles Lindbergh--Bush typically seems less curious about people's arguments than their motives for making them. That has its drawbacks. When the French warned about the potential hazards of occupying an Arab country--lessons learned from their colonial history--Bush's focus on their motives for avoiding war left little room for consideration of their arguments...
...Chernow is the author of The House of Morgan, Titan and the recent best-selling biography Alexander Hamilton
...modern age, universities are offering alumni the chance to do more than flaunt the old school tie. It's a lot more high tech now. About 20% of major universities offer online databases that help you find other alums who can offer guidance and assistance, says Cindy Chernow, director of the alumni career-services department at the University of California, Los Angeles. About 4,500 UCLA alums, out of 276,000 graduates, have volunteered to network online with other alumni. At Harvard's graduate business school, almost half the school's 60,000 alums have volunteered to advise other graduates...
...TITAN: THE LIFE OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR. The man who made his surname synonymous with limitless riches was reviled and caricatured during his life, and posterity has not been too much kinder. Biographer Ron Chernow's account portrays both the thin-lipped skinflint and the philanthropist who gave away hundreds of millions of dollars to worthy enterprises. Monopolies seem to be back in vogue. Wherever he is now, the old man must be smiling...
...Chernow is the author of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. He has also written a biography of J.P. Morgan