Jon Meacham's book about George H.W. Bush made news even before anyone bought it.
Because the 41st president was unusually candid in his interviews with Meacham, the author of Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush.
Bush remarked on his issues with Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and their service to the younger President George Bush, among other observations.
Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his biography of Andrew Jackson and the former editor of Newsweek, visits to talk about the Bush project.