The Real George W.
A Canadian academic sees effective leadership behind the caricature July–August 2005
For years now, people have been trying to pigeonhole George W. Bush. When he first ran for the presidency, they dismissed him as “Shrub,” a know-nothing frat boy pushed onto the stage by his daddy’s rich friends to front for the oil industry. After he entered the White House, they painted him as the “Toxic Texan,” the…