"Illuminates the priorities, governing tendencies, and leadership style of a president in his second term. Reveals how Bush's foreign policy defines and restricts his presidency, dissects America's changing political mood and considers how the president's personal style fits into that milieu, and defines his executive style"--Provided by publisher.

Bush's ambitious second-term agenda hits reality / Dan Balz -- George W. Bush: the man and his leadership / Fred I. Greenstein -- Bush foreign policy : first-term choices, second-term consequences / David E. Sanger -- Bush foreign policy : grand vision and its application / Carla Anne Robbins -- Governing executively : Bush's paradoxical style / Charles O. Jones.