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A Charge to Keep is a 1999 book written by George W. Bush and credited ghostwriter Michael Herskowitz, with a foreword by Karen Hughes. Later editions have the sub-title My Journey To The White House. The book contains a brief overview of Bush's life and political philosophy. It isn't an autobiography in the strict sense, but rather a collection of non-chronological sketches and anecdotes about his years at Yale and Harvard, business career, and time as governor of Texas. He intersperses these with brief explanations of his political philosophy, including his belief in small government, capitalism, and a strong national defense.
   More specific parts of his program, which he enumerates in the last pages include creating a free market alliance with Canada and Latin America, modernizing Social Security, and firmness with hostile regimes, particularly Iraq and North Korea (pp. 238-9)
   The title is taken from a painting by W. H. D. Koerner lent to Bush, showing a horseman charging up a rugged mountain trail, followed by others. In the book, Bush says this scene "epitomizes our mission":
The Saturday Evening Post in 1916 to illustrate a short story called "The Slipper Tongue" and depicts a "slipper-tongued" horse thief being pursued by a lynch mob. The original magazine caption was "Had His Start Been Fifteen Minutes Longer He Would Not Have Been Caught."
   The painting has hung on the west wall of the Oval Office during Bush's presidency.

#	Title	Notes
*	Foreword
*	Reflections	by Karen Hughes
1	A Charge to Keep
2	Midland values
3	"What Texans Can Dream, Texans Can Do"
4	Yale and the National Guard
5	Harvard and Moving Home
6	Reading: The New Civil Right
7	The Best Decision I Ever Made
8	Naming the Team
9	Working Together
10	The Big 4-0
11	Karla Faye Tucker and Henry Lee Lucas
12	Tides
13	The Veto
14	Baseball
15	A Time to Build
16	A Compassionate Conservative

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