Product Description

Here are the essential major speeches and statements by President George W. Bush on the most important issue facing the United States and perhaps the world today: global terrorism. The book begins with the terrible events of September 11, 2001, and concludes on Memorial Day, May 31, 2003, following the end of the war in Iraq. "We Will Prevail" is a definitive and timely record of the new foreign-policy doctrines and international direction of the United States since 9/11. It is inspiring, in the words of praise from President Bush for the people who lost their lives on that day - many in service to others - as well as in the global war on terror. This book is certain to spark controversy and be studied for years to come. The White House counsel has approved this publication which includes State of the Union addresses from 2002 and 2003 as well as the speech from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #728082 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 265 pages

About the Author
Jay Nordlinger is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and managing editor of The National Review. Peggy Noonan is a White House speechwriter and best-selling author.

Customer Reviews

Too Many Little Dots
At the risk of stating the obvious, it is a collection of George Bush's speeches, radio addresses, and appearances as president from post 9/11 until publication. It focuses on terrorism, American achievement and mystique, and above all, fear.

These speeches represent a departure from presidents in the past. A classic opposite was FDR who said that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Bush takes the unhealthy approach of reminding us that we should be fearful of terrorists, terrorism, and the ultimate need to be vigilant, and that under his leadership, we will be victorious.

In trying to present the best side of Mr. Bush, the editors have gone out of their way to remove the gaffes, gaffows and winces that have made his fans characterize him as a good ol' boy, and made his detractors wince in embarassment that he his the president.

And then there's the speeches. Just when you expect Bush to tell us that the best way to fight terrorism is to go to an old age home, to put your arms around someone and tell them you love them, there are these dots, these little ellipses. Just when you are hoping to read that he wants OB/GYN doctors to be able to spread their love to women around the country, there are even more dots. There are too many little dots. There are usually four of them which means the edit goes to the end of the sentence. This is the equivalent of seeing a movie of salty language with its word substitutes on regular television. "Forget you too!" just doesn't seem to have the power as the original, unedited phrase.

I recommend this for Bush admirers only. Do not expect to find anything profound as you would in Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, FDR's or JFK's speeches. There is nothing memorable here, just a mediocre speaker trying his damndest to make Americans afraid.

The only thing you have to fear from this book is....

Words of Our President
Sorry you had to read the liberal review written before this one. This book has been recommended on talk radio stations, and by other conservatives who truly love this country and support our president. We had years of trash and self-adulation from Clinton. All arrows pointed to him. Maybe the previous reviewer forgot what a truly moral and courageous man is like. President Bush cares what happens to this country and wants to stop terrorism before it creeps to our shores again. Highly recommended. Great reading. Check out the book by Ann Coulter for more info on how liberals think.

Words from a Great President and a Great Man
There are (generally) two ways of viewing the problems raised by 9-11. One is to maintain that it was an isolated atrocity committed by a renegade, and bury one's head in the sand to the broader issues. The other is to view it in a global perspective and take it as one strike in a long-term battle against global terror that has been raging for decades.

With an inauspicious beginning as president -- in a country divided by his predecessors, who pitted one people against the other and who also handed off a failing economy and miserable failures and displays of U.S. weakness abroad, as well as being hamstrung by his court-challenged election -- George W. Bush, who came to office to unite Americans after one of the most divisive administrations in history, made some progress (passing necessary tax relief, for instance, to help grow the economy) but with the progressive agenda of reform thwarted by a closely elected congress.

September 11 helped galvanize the Bush presidency, not only giving him a way to unite Americans but also showing his own honesty and compassion, and a strength and resolve that amazed even those who voted for him.

Though George W. Bush doesn't write all his own speeches alone, he is an integral part of the process. Not everyone is gifted with a gift of the blarney like his predecessor, who had the ability to adjust his statements (and views) to whatever audience he was addressing, and to say the most blatantly contradictory things without raising eyebrows. George W. Bush is not a skilled orator, but he is a man of conviction, and his views are distilled through the pens of others who work closely with him.

Plainly, through his speeches, George W. Bush emerges as a man of quiet conviction, not easily roused, but determined to defend the people and Constitution of the country that elected him. Just as plainly, he emerges as a man of enormous vision, able to see the War on Terror plainly as a global phenomenon of which 9-11 was an example, and he is a man who does not want to see people live in fear and intimidation.

His words memorialize the dead. They bring inspiration to a shattered nation. He identifies the problem and clearly and logically defines the steps that must be taken, of eradicating not only the terrorists, but the totalitarian oppressors, owning their governments by gunpoint, who give them havens.

In some cases, such as the U.N. speech, President Bush comes across like Churchill; in other cases he's as "bully", or as compassionate, as his great Republican predecessors Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

The book will be important primary source material in years to come so that, for instance, when he lays out his five-point case against Iraq and goes into the Iraqi leg of the war against the terror masters marching on the bedrock of a dozen years of U.N. resolutions, his own words will prove how vapid the Bush-haters are as they carp on one point and then another, trying to find an argument that will stick, even if they have to watch servicemen of their own country die to prove the president wrong.

WE WILL PREVAIL is more than a triumph of the human spirit against adversity; it a documentary rise of a president who started out with everything against him who grew into one of the giant figures of the twenty-first century, and possibly one of the handful of great presidents of all time.