it is expected to be completed in 2013 for a recently, the former president sat down with smu questions president george w. bush, what was writing this book like? i am a type a personality, i guess you d say and after the presidency, my life went from 100 miles an hour to zero. and the book gave me a focus and a project to keep me occupied. in other words, i was sitting around crawford after the presidency. there was no intelligence briefings, no staff meetings, no crises to deal with and the book gave me something to focus on. i really i actually started writing the book the first day of my post-presidency. when did you decide to do the decisions points as the way you did it? probably the summer of 08. in other words, i was thinking about the book. i d called a group of historians in, many of whom you ve interviewed, by the way, and they all suggested i write the book. they suggested i read grant s memoirs, which i did, but i knew i needed a structure. and i though