George W. Bush has joined Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in an exclusive club: presidential authors who have sold at least a million copies of their books. The Crown Publishing Group announced Wednesday that Bush's memoir, "Decision Points," has sold more than 1.1 million copies. It was released Nov. 9.
NPR syndicated this AP bit,
which can be found here. In the book, he defends the use of water-boarding to extract critical information from terrorists: The Times (UK) reported this earlier this month:
George W. Bush has claimed that information extracted from terrorist suspects by “waterboarding” saved British lives by preventing attacks on Heathrow and Canary Wharf. In an exclusive interview with The Times, the former US President offered a vigorous defence of the coercive interrogation technique: “Three people were waterboarded and I believe that decision saved lives.” He denied that waterboarding, which simulates drowning, amounted to torture. Asked if he authorised the use of waterboarding to get information from the captured al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he was unequivocal: “Damn right!” In his new book he writes: “Their interrogations helped break up plots to attack American diplomatic facilities abroad, Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf in London, and multiple targets in the United States.”
Read the full Times article here. There's also this NPR All Things Considered podcast with and about the former president. See also:
A Charge to Keep
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George W. Bush on God and Country: The President Speaks Out About Faith, Principle, and Patriotism
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Spoken from the Heart
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The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical Assessment
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