The 'Last Moderate Republican': Jon Meacham Illuminates Life Of George H.W. Bush

By Steve Kraske,

Published November 17, 2015 at 12:06 PM CST

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jon Meacham's new book on the first President Bush is generating attention for what he had to say about Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, advisers to his son President George W. Bush. But there's a lot more inside the biography about the man Meacham describes as "the last moderate Republican."

Jon Meacham will be in Kansas City to talk about his latest book, 'Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush' at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18 at Unity Temple on the Plaza. For a tickets and information, visit www.rainydaybooks.com.

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