Ambling into History by Frank Bruni

Ambling into History by Frank Bruni

The unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush.

As the principal New York Times reporter assigned to cover George W. Bush's presidential campaign from its earliest stages - and then as a White House correspondent - Frank Bruni has spent as much time around Bush over the last two years as any other reporter.

In Ambling Into History, Bruni paints the most thorough, balanced, eloquent and lively portrait yet of a man in many ways ill-suited to the office he sought and won, focusing on small moments that often escaped the news media's notice. From the author's initial introduction to Bush through a nutty election night and Bush's first months in office, Bruni captures the president's familiar and less familiar oddities and takes readers on an often funny, usually irreverent, journey into the strange, closed universe - or bubble - of campaign life.

The result is an original take on the political process and a detailed study of George W. Bush as most people have never seen him.

In April 2004, The New York Times named Frank Bruni as its food reviewer. He was previously the Rome bureau chief and a White House correspondent for the publication. In 2002, he published a book about George W. Bush. Bush's book, Ambling into History, was a best seller in the New York Times. He currently resides in New York City.