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George W Bush memoir 'Decision Points' to go on sale

George W Bush will on Monday begin a media blitz that will thrust him back into the lives of Americans after two years of near silent retirement.

The former US president campaign to rehabilitate his reputation in multiple interviews and television appearances to publicise the memoir, which is published this week both in the US and UK.

He will be on screens and the airwaves every day for a week, conducting interviews with giants of American broadcasting such as Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno.

On Winfrey's show he will be accompanied by his parents, former President George Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, while his wife Laura will join him on a breakfast television appearance.

Coming just a week after President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in Congress were trounced in the mid-term elections, the release of Mr Bush's book Decision Points is being treated as a timely reminder of how rapidly political fortunes can alter....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)