text: One nation, fairly divisible, under God; How divided is America?(Special)(Americans are divided about whether their country is itself divided. Some see a yawning culture gap between conservatives and liberals. Others see a soggy moderate centre. Both are right) - The Economist (US) | HighBeam Research
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  A year before Miss Himmelfarb's book, as George Bush was wondering whether to run at all, Alan Wolfe published an alternative view. In "One Nation, After All", he argued that, far from collapsing into warring cultures, America is dominated by a fairly homogenous middle class whose cardinal virtue is tolerance. This class, argued Mr Wolfe, lives in a land of "quiet faith", "ordinary duties" and "morality writ small". If there is a culture war, it is within individuals, as they try to strike a balance between the cultures of the 1950s and 1960s. They are neither beautiful nor dutiful. Mutable, perhaps.
  As Mr Bush prepares to take the oath as America's 43rd president, the question of who is right, Miss Himmelfarb or Mr Wolfe, seems more than usually acute. This is only partly because Mr Bush's prospects for success hinge on the answer. More vitally, there is a great deal of exit-poll evidence that America is indeed becoming, in some ways, "one system, two nations". Ex uno, plures.
  In the 1990s, both parties had hoped to create decisive governing majorities: the Democrats on the back of Mr Clinton's move towards the centre, the Republicans by trying to become the party of the "new economy". …
  Jilted; Pakistan and America.(Bush in Pakistan)(George W. Bush )
  Bush played softball George Bush comes and goes. And a nation goes into a sulk AFTER George Bush's "historic" visit to India, his brief stop in Pakistan on March 3rd-4th was bound to be an anticlimax. But it turned out worse than that. It left Pakistan's large anti-American lobby with plenty of…
  Urging British to Discover America; Bush to Appear in TV Spots Designed to Increase Foreign Tourism
  The Washington Post; December 28, 1991
  In an unprecedented series of spots to be aired next month on British television, President Bush will turn pitchman for the parks, beaches and nightclubs of America. "So what are you waiting for, an invitation from the president?" Bush asks jocularly in the spots, urging Britons to vacation on this…
  Nominees' Beliefs Grounded in 2 Views of America; Bush Is Motivated By Pragmatism, Noblesse Oblige
  The Washington Post; October 30, 1988
  Forty-four years after it happened, George Bush recalls the day he was shot down in the Pacific during World War II as if it had just occurred. In the middle of his presidential campaign this year, he paused to write a private letter to the niece of a Navy flier, Jack Delaney, who was one of two…
  WHY I TREMBLE FOR AMERICA; Bush's Credibility Is Blown. That Posturing Old Bully Donald Rumsfeld Is at War with His generals.The National Debt...
  Daily Mail (London); April 22, 2006
  Byline: MAX HASTINGS THIS is a show that has had Washington gaping. This week Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, most hated man in the Bush Administration against some pretty hot competition, has been parading himself at the head of a procession of captive American generals, who have dutifully told…
  The Washington Post; January 26, 2007
  Seems nothing's ever simple these days. President Bush, in his State of the Union, praised special guest Julie Aigner-Clark, who he said "represents the great enterprising spirit of America," for founding Baby Einstein, makers of children's videos. She started with borrowed equipment in her…