Cranked out by a ghostwriter to help in Bush's 2000 election campaign, this book is a study in politics. Bush appears to float detached through his own story, barely touching the ground to suffer or celebrate the various twists and turns of his own life. This book has the feel of a slickly packaged political tract, and nothing else. I only read it to determine if the odd things I was hearing said were in it actually were present; they weren't. Totally irrelevant, even if you want to understand the mind of the man it purports to eluciate; you won't get that here. Bush is carefully hidden behind a facade determined to paint him as just flawed enough to be human, but without getting him really muddy; in so doing, he's been essentially airbrushed out of his own life. A big ho-hum. ( )