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Robert Draper

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November 15, 1959

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Robert Draper is a freelance writer, a correspondent for GQ and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Previously, he worked for Texas Monthly, where he first became acquainted with the Bush political family.

Robert Draper attended Westchester High School in Houston, Texas. He is the grandson of Leon Jaworski, prosecutor during the Watergate scandal, segregation trials, and Nazi war crimes, which is said to have influenced Draper's writing about the use and abuse of power. Draper was active in high school debate. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, writing for the university newspaper The Daily Texan.
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I have a longtime obsession with the white wines of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in northeastern Italy. They are the country's best but largely unknown to Americans, and it's possible to spend a month in that border region (Austria to the north, Slovenia to the east) and not hear a word of English. The rolling vineyards are spectacular, and the wines they produce have a crisp, aromatic character thorough Read more of this blog post »

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	To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq 4.31 avg rating — 986 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives 3.88 avg rating — 1,085 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind 4.11 avg rating — 997 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush 3.62 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 2007 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pope Francis and the New Vatican by Robert Draper, David Yoder (Photographs) 4.54 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hadrian's Walls 3.79 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“If there’s evil in recklessness, there’s also evil in banality.”
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“Through hear tears, she did not see opportunity. “How could you do this!” she cried to her son’s commander in chief. And then, thinking of Bush’s two children, who would never face combat: “THIS IS NOT YOUR DAUGHTER!”

On the helicopter ride back to the White House, Bush murmured to an aide, “that big black woman was really angry at me.”

He thought for a moment before adding, “I don’t blame here.” He turned to the window of Marine One and said nothing else.”
― Robert Draper, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush

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“If you've got fifty goals,” the governor once lectured the Texas Education Agency, “you've got no goals.”
― Robert Draper, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush

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