In an extraordinary series of private interviews, conducted over sixteen years with the stipulation that they not be released until after Gerald Ford’s death, the thirty-eighth president of the United States reveals a profoundly different side of himself: funny, reflective, gossipy, strikingly candid–and the stuff of headlines.
In 1974, the award-winning journalist and author Thomas DeFrank, then a young correspondent for Newsweek,...

Conversations with twenty-five Americans named George Bush.