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Oliver Stone s W., a biography of President Bush, is fascinating. No other word for it. I became absorbed in its story of a poor little rich kid s alcoholic youth and torturous adulthood. This is the tragedy of a victim of the Peter Principle. Wounded by his father s disapproval and preference for his brother Jeb, the movie argues, George W. Bush rose and rose until he was finally powerful enough to stain his family s legacy.
Unlike Stone s JFK and Nixon, this film contains no revisionist history. Everything in it, including the scenes behind closed doors, is now pretty much familiar from tell-all books by former Bush aides, and reporting by such reporters as Bob Woodward. Though Stone and his writer, Stanley Weiser, could obviously not know exactly who said what and when, there s not a line of dialogue that sounds like malicious fiction. It s all pretty much as published accounts have prepared us for.