Why Is George W. Bush Country: John Podhoretz's Insane

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Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals
Insane is a book explaining why George W. Bush was, as John Podhoretz classified it, one of the best presidents of all time. This book is very beneficial and informative if a student or scholar was looking to do research on the different views on the George W.
Bush presidency or the life of George W. Bush because of the way the author writes, the information given in the book, and the order in which the book is written. From what
I have read of the book, it is obvious that John Podhoretz is very fond of George W.
Bush’s presidency, unlike the majority of the United States population. The way John
Podhoretz writes can be very repetitive at times, but is overall more informal
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Bush has done it all in just three” (Podhoretz, pg. 2). Also, as Podhoretz is writing, he seems to have a pattern of naming a few actual good things about Bush and then taking a bad situation and flipping it so that it seems better than what most people see it as.
The order in which Podhoretz writes his book is the final way this book can be classified as a useful and informative book for students or scholars looking to do research. In a way, Podhoretz moves chronologically through Bush’s presidency, but he does tend to stray from that, pulling points and situations from earlier or later times while trying to explain something. This is good for people doing research because it is easier to find certain information needed for certain periods during his presidency.
In all, the book isn’t bad and it is obvious that Podhoretz definitely ignores the other logical arguments about Bush’s presidency. He mentions the negative things said about Bush’s presidency, but only concludes that these things are being said