In The Bush Dyslexicon author Mark Crispin Miller wants us to look past the pathetic grammar and misstatements of our 43rd president and see something much more troubling - a president who is above it all, who is saying that once the votes were counted he is accountable to no one. Miller includes enough of the misstatements for us to see what we're supposed to be getting past but the book really is about politics and about a man less skilled in use of the English language perhaps than any other president before him.
Writing a book about politics before history has time to sift through the various facts is always a little risky. And Miller's book comes off just a bit dated because of that. Written in 2001 before the September terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, this book reflects the early "ah shucks" President who still thought his term as president was going to be at least as easy as his term as governor of Texas. The quotes and analysis in this book aren't about bad intelligence and even worse strategic decisions. They're about campaigning, working harder than he expected to get elected, and even then having to call on family and friends to settle the election perhaps prematurely.
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