Jeb: America’s Next Bush

Jeb Bush, Florida’s governor and a dutiful prince, was groomed his entire life for the presidency, only to learn that life isn’t fair when his far less industrious black sheep brother beat him to the job. S. V. Date, who, as Tallahassee bureau chief of The Palm Beach Post, has covered Jeb for eight years, rejects the trend in political journalism that focuses only on American Idol-like artifice–who’s up and who’s down and what are the latest poll numbers?–and muckrakes his way to the core of Jeb in this revealing account of his Florida years.