Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (Jon Meacham - WH) brass As President Harry S Truman

As President Harry S Truman mulls his options and Japanese physician Okiro Hamishita cares for patients at a clinic near Hiroshima

on Abraham Lincoln's journey to Richmond after its fall

and bled at Gettysburg

For the Confederates

Meet leaders whose stories you might not know but whose losses were felt as deeply personal tragedies by those around them

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (Jon Meacham - WH) brass As President Harry S TrumanJon Meacham Drawing on President Bushs personal diaries, on the diaries of his wife, Barbara, and on extraordinary access to the forty first president and his family, Meacham paints an intimate and surprising portrait of an intensely private man who led the nation through tumultuous times. From the Oval Office to Camp David, from his study in the private quarters of the White House to Air Force One, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the first Gulf