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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9780026863551 ISBN: 0026863553 Label: Sra Manufacturer: Sra Publication Date: 1997-05 Publisher: Sra Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Studio: Sra Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Humble RemembranceToday marks the 7th anniversary of the famous reading of "The Pet Goat". May our leaders never be so enchanted by children's stories as to forgot that acts of war should be dealt with first. Rating:  - A Little Maturity, Please, PeopleI've never read this book, being an adult and not having children. This is really a review of the controversy over Bush's reading of it for seven minutes after being informed of the second WTC attack. People have accused him of indecisiveness for this. I'm not a fan of the Bush administration or Republicans in general, but this particular bit of criticism is contemptibly foolish. Seven minutes is no time at all; we are talking about a human being (more or less), not a supercomputer. Even in the event ... Read More Rating: - The Pet Goat: A work of geniusThis is the stuff that makes great men so great. Should be a required reading for leaders of men. Presidential material. I found it so rich and powerful that I had to take seven minutes to reflect and decide what to do next. Rating: - contains "The Pet Goat"The biggest claim to fame of this book is that it is the book from which President Bush famously read the story "The Pet Goat" on the morning of September 11th, 2001. If you look up "The Pet Goat" on Wikipedia, there is a nice picture of George W. Bush holding the book, shortly after then-White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card informed the President that America was under attack. Rating: - Riveting, this book had me rivited to my chair!I really like this book a lot. Once I was reading this book with some short friends of mine. (These friends are people, and they're not as tall as me.) I'm sorry to say, though, my friend Andy came into the room while I was reading this VERY VERY GOOD book and he interrupted me, which was really sort of rude of him. (I said very very good like that because that will impress my friend Laura -- who is a girl and also my wife, because I got married to her like I did because I am not gay and neither is ... Read More |
