Volume 39, Number 14 · August 13, 1992

The Hostage

By Garry Wills

The fecklessness of George Bush is best seen in the way he has dithered back and forth between two Republican parties for all of his political life. While yearning intermittently toward the evanescing party of his father—the Wall Street internationalist party of paternalistic 'Wise Men'—he rose with the surging Goldwater party, to which his fortunes have been hostage.



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