‘Blindsided’: A President’s Story

By MAUREEN DOWD
NYT

WASHINGTON

W. never sweated the small stuff.

Unfortunately, he didn’t much sweat the big stuff either.

Often the thing the former president was sweating most was, well, sweating — making sure he got in quality time for his cherished workouts.

In his deftly crafted and utterly selective new memoir, W. is the president we all wished him to be: compassionate, bipartisan, funny, charming, instinctive, independent, able to admit and learn from mistakes — and a good dad, who sang his twin girls the Yale fight song as a lullaby.

Heck, after I finished reading it, I was ready to vote for the guy.

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