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In State o f Denial, Woodward uses anecdotes to inform readers
about Bush’s determining factors in decision making. He describes for
example how Barbara Bush delivers a speech in Washington at a dinner
party (113-114). She tells a story about Bush as a young child playing in
his cowboy outfit and entertain himself for hours fighting the bad guys,
or as he called them, ‘The Axis of Evil.’” This anecdote portrays a leader
who is shown as a virtuous man fighting evil, implying that a mora B