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DECISION POINTS
By George W. Bush
Illustrated. 497 pp. Crown Publishers. $35
They call themselves, smugly, “41” and “43,” meaning the 41st and 43rd presidents of the United States. You’re supposed to prefer the father, all graciousness and handwritten little notes, over the son, who — even in memoirs written at age 64 after two terms as president — seems callow. But I would take George W. Bush’s schoolboy petulance and solipsism, which at least seem authentic and human, over George H. W.’s grandee-with-a-switchblade any day. There is something very modern, almost New Agey, and endearingly insecure, about the tone and posture the son adopts in “Decision Points.” Even as he’s bombing Baghdad back to the Stone Age, he’s very much in touch with his feelings. In college, he says, he was appalled to learn how the French Revolution betrayed its ideals
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