What makes W. tick?
Atlantic: Historian and journalist Richard Brookhiser weighs in on George W. Bush — his management style, his mean streak, his religiosity, and his recovery from alcoholism. [→ READ ]
Bush’s worldview is extremely rigid, circumscribed by the good-versus-evil religious convictions to which he has adhered since his recovery from alcoholism seventeen years ago. “Practically,” Brookhiser writes, “Bush’s faith means that he does not tolerate, or even recognize, ambiguity: there is an all-knowing God who decrees certain behaviors, and leaders must obey.” While this clear-cut belief structure enables him to make split-second decisions and take action with principled confidence, it also means that he is limited by “strictly defined mental horizons.”
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