George W. Bush
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4157325 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Nadel (University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 810-813 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaaa448 |
| OpenAlex | W3110933059 |
| Language | EN |
It is hard to know how to start a review of a documentary so ineptly scripted as to imply that the vice president is not elected but chosen by the president after taking office, in the same way as cabinet members are. Describing President George W. Bush's second term administration, however, the narrator of George W. Bush tells us that Colin Powell resigned, but that Bush “kept on [Dick] Cheney as vice president and [Donald] Rumsfeld as secretary of defense.” Suffice it to say that, although this gaff may signal that the director, Jamila Ephron, and the writers, Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance, lacked the knowledge requisite for their task, it is far from the most problematic aspect of this two-part, four-hour documentary, broadcast in May 2020, as part of the PbsAmerican Experience series. While ostensibly the biography of the man who served for eight of his seventy-three years
Administration (probate law · Art history · Biography · Cabinet (room · George (robot · Management · Political science · Vice president · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |